Ornithorhynchus anatinus
- 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
Ornithorhynchus rufus Péron in Lesueur & Petit, 1807
(Figs 1; 65-69)
Ornithorhynchus rufus Péron in Lesueur & Petit, 1807: pl. 34, fig. 2.
COMMON NAME. — Platypus.
CURRENT NAME. — Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799).
See Jackson & Groves (2015: 36).
COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, contra Desmarest (1822: 380) who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Near Port Jackson (Sydney), New South Wales, Australia (Desmarest 1822: 380). COLLECTION DATE. — Between 3 July and 18 November 1802. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — MNHN-ZM-AC-A3316 (Fig. 1), holotype skeleton mount (male).
OTHER NUMBER/S. — CAG IV-28 by Péron and Lesueur.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80034-1, 80034-2 and 80178 (Figs 65-67; four living animals), Inv. no. 80269 (Fig. 68; skeleton) (Baglione & Crémière 2009: 116; Altmann 2012: 89), and Inv. no. 80033 (Fig. 69; one living animal and hind leg, beak and tail) (Baglione & Crémière 2009: 351).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1802-07-03
- Family
- Ornithorhynchidae
- Genus
- Ornithorhynchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- MNHN-ZM-AC-A3316
- Order
- Monotremata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Shaw
- Species
- anatinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1802-07-03/11-18
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021
References
- 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
- SHAW G. 1799. - The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects, drawn and described immediately from nature. F. P. Nodder & Co., London. Volume 10. Text to plates 385 - 386. [Jun 1799]. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 59339864
- JACKSON S. M. & GROVES S. M. 2015. - Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 529 p.
- DESMAREST A. G. 1822. - Mammalogie, ou description des especes de mammiferes. Seconde Partie, contenant les ordres des bimanes, des quadrumanes et des carnassiers. V. Agasse, Paris: 277 - 555. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39521769
- BAGLIONE G. & CREMIERE C. 2009. - Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Peintre voyageur, un tresor oublie. Editions de Conti, Paris.
- ALTMANN J. 2012. - Zeichnen als beobachten. Die Bildwerke der Baudin-Expedition (1800 - 1804). Akademie Verlag GmbH, Berlin.