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  • biomedicalephemera: Mystacina tuberculata and Molossus norfolcensis [now Mormopterus norfolkensis?] - The New Zealand Lesser Short-Tailed Bat and East-Coast Free-Tailed Bat (?) These scientific names are getting harder and harder to figure out the modern equivalents to… Anyway. There’s a long-tailed bat that’s native to New Zealand, but it looks nothing like the bat depicted as Molossus norfolcensis. The bat is clearly a member of the family Molossidae - the free-tailed bats - but it’s unclear which specific species this one is. The east-coast free-tailed bat has a range most likely to include any of the New Zealand islands, as well as having a similar facial structure as the bat depicted here. The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, 1839-1843. John Richardson, 1845.

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    Mystacina tuberculata and Molossus norfolcensis [now Mormopterus norfolkensis?] - The New Zealand Lesser Short-Tailed Bat and East-Coast Free-Tailed Bat (?)

    These scientific names are getting harder and harder to figure out the modern equivalents to…

    Anyway. There’s a long-tailed bat that’s native to New Zealand, but it looks nothing like the bat depicted as Molossus norfolcensis. The bat is clearly a member of the family Molossidae - the free-tailed bats - but it’s unclear which specific species this one is. The east-coast free-tailed bat has a range most likely to include any of the New Zealand islands, as well as having a similar facial structure as the bat depicted here.

    The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, 1839-1843. John Richardson, 1845.

    Tagged: zoology natural history bats 1840s H.M.S. Erebus H.M.S. Terror John Richardson mamalia expedition chiroptera New Zealand bat

    Posted on November 14, 2011 via Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils with 109 notes

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