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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Lemur ruber
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812
(
Figs 134-136
)
Lemur ruber
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812: 159
.
COMMON NAME. — Red Ruffed
Lemur
.
CURRENT NAME. —
Varecia rubra
(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812)
.
See
Groves (2005b: 117)
and
Schwitzer
et al.
(2013: 141)
.
COLLECTOR/S. — Initially collected by
Pieter Heinrich Polemann
[1779-1839] and donated to the Baudin expedition at Cape Town (
Péron 1804a
),
contra
Desmarest (1821: 98)
who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. —
Madagascar
. COLLECTION DATE. — Before
24 January 1804
.
SPECIMEN
NUMBER/S. —
MNHN-ZM-AC-A8126
,
holotype
, intracranial moulding. Specimen missing.
FIG. 40. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1993-4249, paratype skull of
Lemur albimanus
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812
. Scale bar: 2 cm. Photography by Stephen Jackson. Credits: MNHN.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80175 (
Fig. 134
; two living animals), Inv. no. 80185 and 80197r (
Figs 135
;
136
; living animal).
COMMENTS. — Observations of its habits via notes of Péron were recorded by É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier (1824-1842: text to plate 42, Le Maki Roux Femelle).