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Axis axis axis (Erxleben 1777

  • 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

Cervus axis Erxleben, 1777

Cervus axis Erxleben, 1777: 312.

COMMON NAME. — Chital Deer.

CURRENT NAME. — Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777).

See Jackson & Groves (2015: 310).

COLLECTOR/S. — Donation to François Péron.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

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

C OMMENTS. — One record suggests a specimen collected alive and taken to France on board Le Géographe (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172; Girard 1856: 106). Another record suggests two specimens were donated alive at Île de France (Mauritius) (Péron 1804a; Jangoux et al. 2010: 269, 274).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
axis (Erxleben
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Cervidae
Genus
Axis
Species
axis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777 sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021

References

  • ERXLEBEN J. C. P. 1777. - Systema Regni Animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis 1 Mammalia. Impensis Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 p.
  • 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.
  • 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.