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Neophoca cinerea

  • 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

Otaria cinerea Péron in Péron & Freycinet, 1816

(Fig. 171)

Otaria cinerea Péron in Péron & Freycinet, 1816: 54.

COMMON NAME. — Australian Sea-lion.

CURRENT NAME. — Neophoca cinerea (Péron in Péron & Freycinet, 1816).

See Webber (2014: 97) and Jackson & Groves (2015: 295).

COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Île Decres (Kangaroo Island), South Australia, Australia (See Girard 1856: 104). King Island according to Péron (1804a).

COLLECTION DATE. — Between 2 January and 1 February 1803.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.

COMMENTS. — Several ‘fur seals’ were collected at Rottnest Island on 15 June 1801 by Stanislas Levillain (Journal de Stanislas Levillain, Archives Nationales de France, série Marine, 5JJ52) who preserved the two best skins for the museum.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80676 (Fig. 171; living animals) (Fornasiero et al. 2004: 244).

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Otariidae
Genus
Neophoca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peron
Species
cinerea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Neophoca cinerea (Peron, 1816) 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.
  • WEBBER M. A. 2014. - Family Otariidae (eared seals), in WILSON D. E. & MITTERMEIER R. A. (eds) Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 4. Sea Mammals. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona: 34 - 101.
  • JACKSON S. M. & GROVES S. M. 2015. - Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 529 p.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • FORNASIERO J., MONTEATH P. & WEST- SOOBY J. 2004. - Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders. Wakefield Press, Kent Town. 2010 reprint.