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
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Zoosystema
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Echidna setosa
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803a
(
Figs 2
;
3
;
70-72
)
Echidna setosa
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803a: 226
.
COMMON NAME. — Short-beaked
Echidna
.
CURRENT NAME. —
Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus
(É. Geoffroy
SaintHilaire, 1803a
).
See
Jackson & Groves (2015: 40)
.
COLLECTOR/S. —
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
,
contra
Beaufort (1966: 512)
who mentioned both
Péron
and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. —
King Island
, north west
Tasmania
in
Bass Strait
according to
Péron (1804a)
.
Mahoney (1988: 5)
located it to
Adventure Bay
,
Bruny Island
,
Tasmania
,
Australia
. COLLECTION DATE. — Between
20 and 22 May 1802
. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. —
MNHN-ZM-MO-1990-422
(
Fig. 2
),
holotype
, skin mount of
adult
; and
MNHN-ZM-MO-1990-423
(
Fig. 3
),
syntype
, skin mount of
juvenile
(de
Beaufort 1966: 511
). One specimen of this species embarked alive on
Le Naturaliste
but have died during the voyage (
Jangoux
et al.
2010: 268
, 271). One was mounted on
14 September 1804
and two on
23 May 1804
(Journal du laboratoire de Zoologie de Vendémiaire an XII à
Mars 1806
et de
Janvier 1821
à
Décembre 1822
, par Dufresne).
OTHER NUMBER/S. — Anc. Cat. Gal. 11 & 17, Nouv. Cat. Gal. 5 & 4 (de
Beaufort 1966: 511
).
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80031 and 80032 (
Figs 70
,
71
; living animal) (
Baglione & Crémière 2009: 171
;
Fornasiero
et al.
2016: 125
), and Inv. no. 80265 (
Fig. 72
; skeleton) (
Baglione & Crémière 2009: 351
). The lack of fur in the animal depicted in
Figure 70
may suggest this animal was recorded on mainland
Australia
rather than King Island or
Tasmania
.