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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Kangurus fuliginosus
Desmarest, 1817
(
Figs 26-28
;
108
)
Kangurus fuliginosus
Desmarest, 1817c: 35
; pl. 22.
FIG. 25. — MNHN-ZM-AC-1883-351, holotype skull of
Hypsiprymnus peron
Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
. Scale bar: 2 cm. Photography by Stephen Jackson. Credits: MNHN.
FIG. 24. — MNHN-ZM-AC-A2597, non-type skull of
Phalangista ursina
Temminck, 1824
. Scale bar: 2 cm. Photography by Cécile Callou. Credits: MNHN.
COMMON NAME. — Western Grey Kangaroo.
CURRENT NAME. —
Macropus fuliginosus
(
Desmarest, 1817
)
.
See
Jackson & Groves (2015: 154)
.
COLLECTOR/S. —
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
,
contra
Desmarest (1821: 273)
;
Girard (1856: 115)
and de
Beaufort (1966: 549)
who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. —
Île Decres
(
Kangaroo Island
),
South Australia
,
Australia
. COLLECTION DATE. — Between
2 January and 1 February 1803
. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. —
MNHN-ZM-MO-1990-396
(
Figs 26
;
27
),
holotype
,
male
, skull and skin mount
;
MNHN-ZM-2014-70
(
Fig. 28
),
paratype
,
female
skin mount
(de
Beaufort 1966: 549
; Julien-Laferrière 1994: 25-26). Two were collected during the expedition at Kangaroo Island (
Péron 1804a
). Two specimens of this species have been brought back to
France
alive on
Le Géographe
(
Jangoux
et al.
2010: 269
, 272).
OTHER NUMBER/S. — Anc. Cat. Gal. 1, Nouv. Cat. Gal. 12 & 13 (de
Beaufort 1966: 549
; Julien-Laferrière 1994: 25-26).
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80057 (
Fig. 108
; two live animals) (
Fornasiero
et al.
2004: 236
;
Baglione & Crémière 2009: 126
;
Fornasiero
et al.
2016: 120
).