Biodiversity Literature Repository
Published July 22, 2021 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Leptailurus serval

Creators

  • 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

Felis capensis Forster, 1781

Felis capensis Forster, 1781: 4.

COMMON NAME. — Serval.

CURRENT NAME. — Leptailurus serval (Schreber, 1776).

See Wozencraft (2005: 540).

COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, contra Desmarest (1821: 229) who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South-Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

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

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 387-548 in Zoosystema 43 (21) on page 438, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21, http://zenodo.org/record/5142972

Files

Files (918 Bytes)

Name Size Download all
md5:3464659d03a5893db120e18eec431fe5
918 Bytes Download

System files (10.4 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:0b31e5c01fc294883989038d2908c320
10.4 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A01B3B5C2FFFE96235FD1DFE5FFB3C

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5142972 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF9963435C1AFFDC6306FFC8FFC6FF95 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:44FB8C35-C903-4DDD-BEF9-2B5384AA8156 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03A01B3B5C2FFFE96235FD1DFE5FFB3C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/183823440 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/5246/taxon/03A01B3B5C2FFFE96235FD1DFE5FFB3C.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Felidae
Genus
Leptailurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Schreber
Species
serval
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Leptailurus serval (Schreber, 1776) sec. Jackson, Jansen, Baglione & Callou, 2021

References

  • FORSTER J. R. 1781. - Natural history and description of the tygercat of the Cape of Good Hope. Philosophical Transactions 71: 1 - 6. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 51825607
  • WOZENCRAFT W. C. 2005. - Order Carnivora, in WILSON D. E. & REEDER D. M. (eds) Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Third Edition: 532 - 628.
  • DESMAREST A. G. 1821. - Mammalogie, ou description des especes de mammiferes. Premier Partie, contenant les ordres des bimanes, des quadrumanes et des carnassiers. V. Agasse, Paris, 276 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39523759