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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Viverra felina
Thunberg, 1811
(
Figs 188
;
189
)
Viverra felina
Thunberg, 1811a: 165
.
COMMON NAME. — Feline Genet.
CURRENT NAME. —
Genetta felina
(
Thunberg, 1811
)
.
See
Jennings & Veron (2009: 217)
. This species is possibly
Genetta tigrina
(Schreber, 1776: pl. 115 [1776], 3 (25): 425 [1777]). See
Wozencraft (2005: 557)
and
Jennings & Veron (2009: 224)
.
COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.
COLLECTION LOCALITY. —
Cape
Town,
South Africa
.
COLLECTION DATE. — Before
24 January 1804
.
SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.
COMMENTS. — One animal was collected taken alive back to
France
on board
Le Géographe
under the name of “Genette du Cap” by É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1804c: 172) and “
Viverra capensis
?” by
Péron (1804a)
; which appear to refer to either
Genetta felina
or
Genetta tigrina
(
Jennings & Veron 2009: 217
, 224). Donated by Jan Willem Janssens, Governor-General of the
Cape
Colony in
South Africa
(Report
20 April 1804
by Fourcroy stored in library of the MNHN; See also
Milius (1987: 57)
. Donation to François Péron (
Péron 1804a
). An illustration by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (Inv. no. 80165 and 80166;
Figs 185-186
) of a live animal refers to the subject only as “ursus???”.
Baglione & Crémière (2009: 172)
referred to the same image as “Civette paliste”.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80165 and 80166 (
Figs 188
;
189
; one animal.