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- ↑ Kitchener, D.J.; How, R.A.; Maharadatunkamsi (1992). "A new species of Otomops (Chiroptera; Molossidae) from Alor I., Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 15 (4): 729–738.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Johnstone, R. E.", p. 136).
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