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Mirounga leonina

  • 1. 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
  • 2. Honorary Research Associate, Department of Vertebrates, Naturalis Biodiversity Center P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands)
  • 3. Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Ville du Havre, Place du Vieux Marché, F- 76600 Le Havre (France) gabrielle. baglione @ lehavre. fr
  • 4. 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

Description

Phoca proboscidea Péron in Péron & Freycinet, 1816

Phoca proboscidea Péron in Péron & Freycinet, 1816. pl. 32 from Lesueur & Petit 1807.

COMMON NAME. — Elephant Seal.

CURRENT NAME. — Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758).

See Jackson & Groves (2015: 302) and Stewart (2014: 171).

COLLECTOR/S. — No data. Observed by Péron (Girard 1856: 98). COLLECTION LOCALITY. — King Island, Tasmania. King Island according toPéron (1804a).

COLLECTION DATE. — Between 8 and 27 December 1802.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No data.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80001 (Fig. 172; three live animals) (Fornasiero et al. 2016: 131), Inv 80007 (Fig. 173; three live animals; engraving from Jacques Milbert from a drawing by Lesueur) (Fornasiero et al. 2016: 131), Inv. no. 80002 and 80003 (Figs 174; 175; sketch of one live animal) (Fornasiero et al. 2016: 131), Inv. no. 80004, 80005 and 80006 (Figs 176-178; two live animals) (Fornasiero et al. 2016: 100)

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 387-548 in Zoosystema 43 (21) on pages 436-437, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21, http://zenodo.org/record/5142972

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phocidae
Genus
Mirounga
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
leonina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021

References

  • PERON F. & FREYCINET L. 1816. - Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes, Partie historique 2, terminee par L. de Freycinet. Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 471 p.
  • LESUEUR C. A. & PETIT N. M. 1807. - Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes, Atlas Historique, 1. Imprimerie Imperiale, Paris. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30581262
  • LINNAEUS C. 1758. - Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Volume 1. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 726886
  • JACKSON S. M. & GROVES S. M. 2015. - Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 529 p.
  • STEWART B. S. 2014. - Family Phocidae, in WILSON D. E. & MIT- TERMEIER R. A. (eds) Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 4. Sea Mammals. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona: 120 - 183.
  • GIRARD M. 1856. - F. Peron, naturaliste, voyageur aux Terres Australes; sa vie, appreciation de ses travaux, analyse raisonnee de ses recherches sur les animaux vertebres et invertebres d'apres ses collections depos e es au Museum d'Histoire naturelle. J. - B. Bailliere, Paris. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 46101762
  • DESMAREST A. G. 1821. - Mammalogie, ou description des especes de mammiferes. Premier Partie, contenant les ordres des bimanes, des quadrumanes et des carnassiers. V. Agasse, Paris, 276 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39523759
  • FORNASIERO J., LAWTON L. & WEST- SOOBY J. 2016. - The Art of Science. Nicolas Baudin's Voyagers 1800 - 1804. Wakefield Press, Mile End, 176 p.