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Georynchus capensis
- 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
Mus capensis Pallas, 1779
(Fig. 154)
Mus capensis Pallas, 1779: 172.
COMMON NAME. — Cape Mole-rat.
CURRENT NAME. — Georynchus capensis (Pallas, 1779).
See Woods & Kilpatrick (2005: 1541).
COLLECTOR/S. — No data.
COLLECTION LOCALITY. — No data.
COMMENT. — The species occurs near Cape Town, South Africa.
COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.
SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No data.
COMMENTS. — Péron (1804a) referred to it as Talpoides dimacrodontus.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80131 (Fig. 154; sketch of one living animal, skull and feet) (Baglione & Crémière 2009: 361).
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 424, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21, http://zenodo.org/record/5142972
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bathyergidae
- Genus
- Georynchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- capensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Georynchus capensis (Pallas, 1779) sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021
References
- WOODS C. A. & KILPATRICK C. W. 2005. - Infraorder Hysticognathi, in WILSON D. A. & REEDER D. M. (eds) Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Third Edition: 1538 - 1600.
- PERON F. 1804 a. - Diarium Zoographicum. No. XV. Ans XI et XII. Observationes generales de Collectionibus factis in Zoologia ex profectura nostra de Portu Jackson (27 Brumaire an XI) adusque Promontorium Bonae Spei inclusive (30 Pluviose an XII). Museum d'Histoire naturelle du Havre, no. 21001.
- BAGLIONE G. & CREMIERE C. 2009. - Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Peintre voyageur, un tresor oublie. Editions de Conti, Paris.