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
2021
2021-07-22
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Felis pardus
Linnaeus, 1758
Felis pardus
Linnaeus, 1758: 41
.
COMMON NAME. — Leopard.
CURRENT NAME. —
Panthera pardus
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
.
See
Wozencraft (2005: 547)
and
Sunquist & Sunquist (2009: 133)
.
COLLECTOR/S. — Donated to François Péron.
COLLECTION LOCALITY. — No data. Three specimens are referred to (in addition to a specimen of
Felis melas
referred to below) by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1804c: 172) (See
Jangoux
et al.
2010: 276
). One of these has been provided to the Baudin expedition at Île de
France
(
Mauritius
) by General Charles-Mathieu-Isidore Decaen (
Péron 1804a
) under the name of “Onca” which refers to the similar looking Jaguar
Panthera onca
(
Linnaeus, 1758: 42
)
. Commander Pierre-Bernard
Milius (1987: 57)
also appears to have been offered two further animals by Jan Willem Janssens, Governor-General of the
Cape
Colony in
South Africa
, where they were referred to as “Once” (or Tiger by the settlers) (See
Girard 1856: 96
;
Milius 1987: 57
;
Jangoux
et al.
2010: 276
;
Hambly 2013: 277
).
COLLECTION DATE. — Before
24 January 1804
.
SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.
COMMENTS. — Three animals collected and taken alive back to
France
on board
Le Géographe
under the name
Felis pardalis
(synonym of
Leopardus pardalis
) which appears to be in error for
Felis pardus
as the former species only occurs in South America (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172). One should exercise some caution as to whether these animals are different to the
Felis melas
referred to below.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.