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Vombatus ursinus

Authors/Creators

  • 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

Phascolomys bassi Lesson, 1827

Phascolomys bassi Lesson, 1827: 229.

COMMON NAME. — Bare-nosed Wombat.

CURRENT NAME. — Vombatus ursinus (Shaw, 1800).

See Jackson & Groves (2015: 101).

COLLECTOR/ S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur or Mr Cooper, contra de Beaufort (1966: 536) who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Not designated. COMMENT. — After Dawson (1988: 50), type locality could be King Island. COLLECTION DATE. — Between 8 and 27 December 1802. SPECIMEN NUMBER/ S. — No type designated (Dawson 1988: 50). Five specimens of this species, and/or Phascolomis wombat above, appear to have embarked alive back to France on Le Naturaliste (Jangoux et al. 2010: 269).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrations referred to above under Phascolomis wombat Lesueur & Petit, 1807 can also apply here.

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 page 405, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21, http://zenodo.org/record/5142972

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Shaw
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Diprotodontia
Family
Vombatidae
Genus
Vombatus
Species
ursinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Vombatus ursinus (Shaw, 1800) sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021

References

  • LESSON R. P. 1827. - Manuel de Mammalogie, ou histoire naturelle des Mammiferes. Roret, Paris. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 54207514
  • SHAW G. 1800. - General Zoology, or systematic natural history. Quadrupeds. G. Kearsley, London. Volume 1. Part 2. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 19632318
  • JACKSON S. M. & GROVES S. M. 2015. - Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 529 p.
  • BEAUFORT F. DE 1966. - Catalogue des types de mammiferes du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Paris. VI. Monotremata. - VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Section B. Botanique, Biologie et EcologieVegetables Phytochimie (2) 38: 509 - 553. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 55121975
  • DAWSON L. J. 1988. - Vombatidae, in WALTON D. W. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 5. Mammalia. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra: 48 - 50.
  • JANGOUX M., JOUANIN C. & METIVIER B. 2010. - Les animaux embarques vivants sur les vaisseaux du voyage de decouvertes aux Terres australes. Actes du colloque Portes par l'air du temps: les voyages du capitaine Baudin, Bruxelles, septembre 2009. Etudes sur le XVIIIe Siecle 38: 265 - 282.
  • 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