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 text Zoosystema 2021 2021-07-22 43 21 387 548 journal article 5246 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21 3034d59c-159d-493f-84f1-54058652b307 1638-9387 5142972 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:44FB8C35-C903-4DDD-BEF9-2B5384AA8156 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.