Panthera leo ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 438

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:44FB8C35-C903-4DDD-BEF9-2B5384AA8156
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5143472
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A01B3B-5C2F-FFE9-6245-FB3BFE5FF8D3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Panthera leo ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
status

Treatment

Felis leo Linnaeus, 1758

Felis leo Linnaeus, 1758: 41 View in CoL .

COMMON NAME. — Lion.

CURRENT NAME. — Panthera leo ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL .

See Wozencraft (2005: 546).

COLLECTOR/S. — Donated to François Péron.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — No data. Probably Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

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

C OMMENTS. — Two young female lions collected and taken alive back to France on board Le Géographe (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 171; Girard 1856: 96; Péron 1804a; Jangoux et al. 2010: 269, 275).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.