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Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)

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, Zoosystema 43 (21), pp. 387-548 : 434-436

publication ID

 https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21

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DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5143409

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scientific name

 Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)
status

 

Viverra capensis Schreber, 1776

Viverra capensis Schreber, 1776: 3 , pl. 125; 1777: 3, text 450.

COMMON NAME. — Honey Badger.

CURRENT NAME. — Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776) View in CoL .

See Wozencraft (2005: 612), and Larivière & Jennings (2009: 621).

COLLECTOR/S. — Donation to François Péron ( Péron 1804a).

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No data. Two specimens donated ( Péron 1804a) but no specimens found.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Mustelidae

Genus

Mellivora

Loc

Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)

Jackson, Stephen M., Jansen, Justin J. F. J., Baglione, Gabrielle & Callou, Cécile 2021
2021
Loc

Viverra capensis

Schreber 1776: 3
1776

Specimens

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