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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2021-07-22
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Canis familiaris australasiae
Desmarest, 1821
(
Figs 57-59
;
168-170
)
Canis familiaris australasiae
Desmarest, 1821: 191
.
COMMON NAME. — Dingo.
CURRENT NAME. —
Canis familiaris
Linnaeus, 1758
.
See
Jackson & Groves (2015: 288)
, and
Jackson
et al.
(2017: 201
;
2019: 198
).
COLLECTOR/S. —
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
,
contra
Desmarest (1821: 191)
who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. —
Near Port Jackson
(
Sydney
),
New South Wales
,
Australia
. COLLECTION DATE. — Between
3 July and 18 November 1802
.
SPECIMEN
NUMBER/S. —
MNHN-ZM-2010-671
(
Figs 57
;
58
),
holotype
, skull and skin mount
; and
MNHN-ZM-2010-672
(
Fig. 59
),
topotype
skin mount
.
OTHER NUMBER/S. — Nouv. Cat. Gal. 293A & 294. The skull of MNHN-ZM-2010-671 is also inscribed under the number MNHN-ZM-AC-1984-17 and CAG BI-1.
COMMENTS. — Two specimens were brought back alive from
Australia
on board
Le Naturaliste
and lived at the “Menagerie du Roi in 1806” (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F.
Cuvier 1825
[1824-1842]: Vol 5, Text to plate;
Jangoux
et al.
2010: 269
, 274).
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80149r and 80149v (
Figs 168
;
169
; sketches of animals), and Inv. no. 80164 (
Fig. 170
; coloured illustration of living animal).