Axis axis ( Erxleben, 1777 )

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 : 443

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scientific name	Axis axis ( Erxleben, 1777 )
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Cervus axis Erxleben, 1777

Cervus axis Erxleben, 1777: 312 View in CoL .

COMMON NAME. — Chital Deer.

CURRENT NAME. — Axis axis ( Erxleben, 1777) View in CoL .

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.