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
2021
2021-07-22
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21
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548
journal article
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10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21
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Hystrix capensis
Grill, 1858
Hystrix capensis
Grill, 1858: 19
.
COMMON NAME. —
Cape
Porcupine.
CURRENT NAME. —
Hystrix africaeaustralis
Peters, 1852
.
See
Woods & Kilpatrick (2005: 1543)
and
Barthelmess (2016: 327)
.
COLLECTOR/S. — Two from the
Cape
collected alive recorded by Pierre Bernard Milius (
Péron 1804a
). See also
Milius (1987: 57)
and
Jangoux
et al.
(2010: 269
, 276).
COLLECTION LOCALITY. —
Cape
Town,
South Africa
.
COLLECTION DATE. — Before
24 Jan 1804
.
SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.
COMMENTS. — Two specimens, male and female, were collected alive and taken back to
France
on board
Le Géographe
under the name of “porcs-epics vivants” (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172;
Girard 1856: 105
). Upon arrival in
France
the animals were kept in the menagerie of the Muséum and fed bread and rice (
Jangoux
et al.
2010: 276
).
ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.