Mystacina Gray, 1843. In Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand 2: 296
Mystacina tuberculata Gray, 1843 (by ICZN ruling Opinion 1994 [2002])
Mystacops Lydeckker, 1891 [placed on the Offical List of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology ICZN Opinion 1994 (2002)].
References:
Gray, J.E. 1843. List of Mammalia hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand. Pages 181-185, 296 In E. Dieffenbach (eds.) Travels in New Zealand; with Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany, and Natural History of that Country. Volume 2. London: John Murray. Read article.
Hill, J.E., and M.J. Daniel. 1985. Systematics of the New Zealand short-tailed bat Mystacina Gray, 1843 (Chiroptera: Mystacinidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 48: 279-300. Read article.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2002. Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and Vespertilio tuberculatus J.R. Forster, 1844 (currently C. tuberculatus (Mammalia: Chiroptera): usage of the generic and specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 59(1): 63-64. Read article.
Lloyd, B.D. 2001. Advances in New Zealand mammalogy 1990-2000: short-tailed bats. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 31(1): 59-81. Read article.
Mayer, G.C., and J.A.W. Kirsch. 2000. Comments on the proposed conservation of usage of the names Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and C. tuberculatus (J.R. Forster, 1844) (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(3): 172-176. Read article.
Mayer, G.C., J.A.W. Kirsch, J.M. Hutcheon, F-J Lapointe, and J. Gingras. 1999. On the valid name of the lesser New Zealand short-tailed bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112(3): 470-490. Read article.
Spencer, H.G., and D.E. Lee. 1999. Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and Vespertilio tuberculatus J.R. Forster, 1844 (currently C. tuberculatus) (Mammalia: Chiroptera): proposed conservation of usage of the names . Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56(4): 250-254. Read article.
Spencer, H.G., and D.E. Lee. 2000. Comments on the proposed conservation of usage of the names Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and C. tuberculatus (J.R. Forster, 1844) (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(3): 176. Read article.
Mystacina robusta Dwyer, 1962.
Zool. Publ. Victoria Univ., Wellington 28: 3.
New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat
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New Zealand, Big South Cape Isl
Stewart Islands, New Zealand
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Critically Endangered (2021).
Likely extinct. See Flannery (1995) and Lloyd (2001).
References:
Dwyer, P.D. 1962. Studies on the two New Zealand bats. Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington 28: 1-28. Read article.
Flannery, T.F. 1995. Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Cornell University Press, Ithaca: 464 pp. Not available online.
Lloyd, B.D. 2001. Advances in New Zealand mammalogy 1990-2000: short-tailed bats. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 31(1): 59-81. Read article.
Mystacina tuberculata Gray, 1843.
In Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand 2:296: 23.
New Zealand Lesser Short-tailed Bat
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tuberculata Gray, 1843:
aupourica J. Edwards Hill & Daniel, 1985;
rhyacobia J. Edwards Hill & Daniel, 1985;
velutina Hutton, 1872 [see comments].
New Zealand
New Zealand
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Vulnerable (2021).
Mayer et al. (1999) and Mayer and Kirsch (2000) argued that the correct name for this species is velutina Hutton, 1872. However, Spencer and Lee (1999, 2000) disagreed, and filed a petition with the International Commission on Zoological Nomeclature to conserve tuberculata as the name for this species. This petition was upheld in Opinion 1994 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2002), which conserved tuberculata Gray, 1843 as the name for this species and which placed velutina Hutton, 1872 on the Official List of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology. Subspecies limits recognized previously by Hill and Daniel (1985) do not correspond to observed patterns of genetic variation (Lloyd, 2003); accordingly no subspecies are recognized here pending a thorough revision of this taxon. See also Carter and Riskin (2006).
References:
Carter, G.G., and D.K. Riskin. 2006. Mystacina tuberculata. Mammalian Species 790: 1-8. Read article.
Gray, J.E. 1843. List of Mammalia hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand. Pages 181-185, 296 In E. Dieffenbach (eds.) Travels in New Zealand; with Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany, and Natural History of that Country. Volume 2. London: John Murray. Read article.
Hill, J.E., and M.J. Daniel. 1985. Systematics of the New Zealand short-tailed bat Mystacina Gray, 1843 (Chiroptera: Mystacinidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 48: 279-300. Read article.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2002. Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and Vespertilio tuberculatus J.R. Forster, 1844 (currently C. tuberculatus (Mammalia: Chiroptera): usage of the generic and specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 59(1): 63-64. Read article.
Lloyd, B.D. 2003. Intraspecific phylogeny of the New Zealand short-tailed bat Mystacina tuberculata inferred from multiple mitochondrial gene sequences. Systematic Biology 52(4): 460-476. Read article.
Mayer, G.C., and J.A.W. Kirsch. 2000. Comments on the proposed conservation of usage of the names Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and C. tuberculatus (J.R. Forster, 1844) (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(3): 172-176. Read article.
Mayer, G.C., J.A.W. Kirsch, J.M. Hutcheon, F-J Lapointe, and J. Gingras. 1999. On the valid name of the lesser New Zealand short-tailed bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112(3): 470-490. Read article.
Spencer, H.G., and D.E. Lee. 1999. Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and Vespertilio tuberculatus J.R. Forster, 1844 (currently C. tuberculatus) (Mammalia: Chiroptera): proposed conservation of usage of the names . Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56(4): 250-254. Read article.
Spencer, H.G., and D.E. Lee. 2000. Comments on the proposed conservation of usage of the names Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters 1866, M. tuberculata Gray 1843, and C. tuberculatus (J.R. Forster, 1844) (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(3): 176. Read article.
See Mayer and Kirsch (1999), Mayer et al. (2000), and Spencer and Lee (1999, 2000) for a thorough discussion of nomenclatural issues surrounding authorship and type attribution for the name Mystacina. This issue was resolved by the ICZN in Opinion 1994, which conserved the generic name Mystacina Gray, 1843 with the type species Mystacina tuberculata Gray, 1843. Revised by Hill and Daniel (1985); see Lloyd (2001) for a review and key to species.