Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758

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Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758

( Fig. 197 )

Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758: 74 .

COMMON NAME. — Mountain Zebra.

CURRENT NAME. — Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758 .

See Grubb (2005a: 633).

COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — A young female specimen collected alive, from the Governor of Cape Town ( Péron 1804a), and taken to France on board Le Géographe (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172; Girard 1856: 105; Jangoux et al. 2010: 269, 275). 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).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80148 ( Fig. 197 ; partial muzzle of an animal).

Figures

FIG. 197. — Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758. Cape Town, South Africa. Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Pencil – 14 × 10 cm. Inv. no. 80148. Credits: MHNH.