Mammals collected and illustrated by the Baudin Expedition to Australia and Timor (1800 - 1804): A review of the current taxonomy of specimens in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris and the illustrations in the Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre Author Jackson, Stephen M. Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange Agricultural Institute, 1447 Forest Road, Orange, New South Wales 2800 (Australia) and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052 (Australia) and Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012 (United States of America) and Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010 (Australia) stephen. jackson @ dpi. nsw. gov. au stephen.jackson@dpi.nsw.gov Author Jansen, Justin J. F. J. Honorary Research Associate, Department of Vertebrates, Naturalis Biodiversity Center P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands) justin.jansen@naturalis.nl Author Baglione, Gabrielle Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Ville du Havre, Place du Vieux Marché, F- 76600 Le Havre (France) gabrielle. baglione @ lehavre. fr gabrielle.baglione@lehavre.fr Author Callou, Cécile Archéozoologie, archéobotanique: sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Case postale 55, 57 rue Cuvier F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) cecile. callou @ mnhn. fr cecile.callou@mnhn.fr text Zoosystema 2021 2021-07-22 43 21 387 548 journal article 5246 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21 3034d59c-159d-493f-84f1-54058652b307 1638-9387 5142972 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:44FB8C35-C903-4DDD-BEF9-2B5384AA8156 Plecotus peronii I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832 ( Figs 56 ; 167 ) Plecotus peronii I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832 : Class 1, Part 2, Text to plate 3. COMMON NAME. — Brown Long-eared Bat. CURRENT NAME. — Plecotus auritus Linnaeus, 1758 . See Simmons (2005: 482) and Moratelli & Burgin (2019: 869) . COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Collection locality unknown as the description gives possible localities as Cape Town, southern Asia or Australia (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1832: class 1, part 2). COMMENT. — This genus occurs in Europe, but also in Tererife ( Moratelli & Burgin 2019: 865 ), which was visited by the Baudin expedition. COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804 . SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1984-434 , female syntype (specimen missing) , and MNHN-ZM-MO-1984-77 (Fig. 55), male , syntype preserved in alcohol . FIG. 53. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1983-1482, non-type specimen. Male in alcohol of Myotis myotis Borkhausen, 1797 . Scale bar: 2 cm. Photography by Stephen Jackson. Credits: MNHN. FIG. 54. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1983-1483, non-type specimen. Female in alcohol of Myotis myotis Borkhausen, 1797 .Scale bar: 2 cm. Photography by Stephen Jackson. Credits: MNHN. FIG. 56. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1984-77, syntype male in alcohol of Plecotus peronii I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832. Scale bar: 2 cm. Photography by Stephen Jackson. Credits: MNHN. ILLUSTRATIONS. — Possibly illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80042 ( Fig. 167 ; left – living animal). Illustration is unnamed by Baglione & Crémière (2016: 358-359) but may be this species.