Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus ( Wood Jones, 1925 )

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 : 436

Otaria peronii Desmarest, 1817

( Fig. 60 )

Otaria peronii Desmarest, 1817d: 598 .

COMMON NAME. — Australian Fur Seal.

CURRENT NAME. — Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus ( Wood Jones, 1925) .

See Webber (2014: 94) and Jackson & Groves (2015: 293).

COLLECTOR/S. — Stanislas Levillain. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Rottnest Island , Western Australia, Australia. Geographe Bay according to Péron (1804a) and collected by Louis Depuch. COLLECTION DATE. — Between 14 and 28 June 1801. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — MNHN-ZM-2014-27 ( Fig. 60 ), holotype skin mount . According to Robineau (1992), this specimen would not be Desmarest’s type specimen, due to a large difference in length (127 cm for the specimen while the largest mentioned by Desmarest measured 83.9 cm).

OTHER NUMBER/S. — Anc. Cat. Gal. 2032, Nouv. Cat. Gal. 29.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.

Figures

FIG. 60. — MNHN-ZM-2014-27, holotype skin mount of Otaria peronii Desmarest, 1817. Scale bar: 20 cm. Photography by Stephen Jackson. Credits: MNHN.