Macropus giganteus Shaw 1790
- 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
Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790
(Figs 107; 109; 110)
Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790: text to pl. 33.
COMMON NAME. — Eastern Grey Kangaroo.
CURRENT NAME. — Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790.
See Jackson & Groves (2015: 154).
COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, contra Girard (1856: 114) who mentioned Péron as its collector.
COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Near Port Jackson (Sydney), New South Wales, Australia (Girard 1856: 114). One animal was taken alive back to France on board Le Géographe under the name of “Kanguroo géant” (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172). Girard (1856: 114) reported that Péron brought back a living individual that perished on arrival and was dissected by G. Cuvier. According to a letter from Baudin, during the second break in Timor, there they had ten giant kangaroos alive on Le Géographe but only one was left upon arrival in France (Girard 1856: 114).
COLLECTION DATE. — Between 20 June and 18 November 1802.
SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80273 (Fig. 107; centre, skull), Inv. no. 80056 (Fig. 109; two living animals) and Inv. no. 80067 (Fig. 110; sketch of an animal) (Baglione & Crémière 2009: 352; Fornasiero et al. 2016: 78).
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Macropodidae
- Genus
- Macropus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Shaw
- Species
- giganteus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021
References
- SHAW G. 1790. - The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature. F. P. Nodder & Co., London. Volume 1: Text to plate 33. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 40297234
- 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
- BAGLIONE G. & CREMIERE C. 2009. - Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Peintre voyageur, un tresor oublie. Editions de Conti, Paris.
- FORNASIERO J., LAWTON L. & WEST- SOOBY J. 2016. - The Art of Science. Nicolas Baudin's Voyagers 1800 - 1804. Wakefield Press, Mile End, 176 p.