Wallabia bicolor
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
Kangurus bicolor Desmarest, 1804b
(Fig. 114)
Kangurus bicolor Desmarest, 1804b: 357.
COMMON NAME. — Swamp Wallaby.
CURRENT NAME. — Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804).
See Jackson & Groves (2015: 166).
COLLECTOR/S. — Unknown but this species could have been collected by the Baudin expedition given the timing of the description. The description by Desmarest (1804b: 358) suggests the type specimen was derived from a live animal in the collection of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. No information is provided with the publication of the name. It may have been one of the live kangaroos received from Joseph Banks by Dufresne or a Baudin expedition mammal. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Near Port Jackson (Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. COLLECTION DATE. — Between 20 June and 18 November 1802. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80060 (Fig. 114; two living animals) (Altmann 2012: 65).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Desmarest
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Family
- Macropodidae
- Genus
- Wallabia
- Species
- bicolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021
References
- DESMAREST A. G. 1804 b. - Kanguroo ou Kangurou, in SONNINI C. S. (ed.) Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquee aux arts, principalement a l'agriculture, a l'economie rurale et domestique: par une societe de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirees des trois regnes de la nature. Deterville, Paris. First Edition. Volume 12: 354 - 358. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 57287162
- DESMAREST A. G. 1804 a. - Dasyure Gutte, in SONNINI C. S. (ed.) Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquee aux arts, principalement a l'agriculture et a l'economie rurale et domestique: par une societe de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirees des trois regnes de la nature. Deterville, Paris. First Edition. Volume 24: 10. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 57784414
- JACKSON S. M. & GROVES S. M. 2015. - Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 529 p.
- ALTMANN J. 2012. - Zeichnen als beobachten. Die Bildwerke der Baudin-Expedition (1800 - 1804). Akademie Verlag GmbH, Berlin.