Connochaetes gnou ( Zimmermann, 1780 )

Jackson, Stephen M., Jansen, Justin J. F. J., Baglione, Gabrielle & Callou, Cécile, 2021, 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, Zoosystema 43 (21), pp. 387-548 : 442

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scientific name	Connochaetes gnou ( Zimmermann, 1780 )
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Antilope gnou Zimmermann, 1780

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Antilope gnou Zimmermann, 1780: 102 .

COMMON NAME. — Black Wildebeest

CURRENT NAME. — Connochaetes gnou ( Zimmermann, 1780) View in CoL .

See Grubb (2005b: 676).

COLLECTOR/S. — Donation to François Péron ( Girard 1856: 106).

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.

COMMENTS. — A male specimen collected alive and taken to France on board Le Géographe under the name of Gnou (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172; Girard 1856: 106). 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) and Jangoux et al. (2010: 273).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80136 ( Fig. 204 View FIG ; two living animals) ( Baglione & Crémière 2009:162), Inv. no. 80137, 80138, 80139, 80140 and 80141 ( Figs 205-209 View FIG View FIG View FIG View FIG View FIG ; head of individual) ( Baglione & Crémière 2009:162), Inv. no. 80142r ( Fig. 210 View FIG ; forefeet of individual), Inv. no. 80145 ( Fig. 211 View FIG ; several animals), and Inv. no. 80197v ( Fig. 212 View FIG ; ketch of head).