Setonix brachyurus ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 )

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 : 414

Kangurus brachyurus Quoy & Gaimard, 1830

( Fig. 112 )

Kangurus brachyurus Quoy & Gaimard, 1830: 114 , pl. 19.

COMMON NAME. — Quokka.

CURRENT NAME. — Setonix brachyurus ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) .

See Jackson & Groves (2015: 169).

COLLECTOR/S. — No data.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — No data.

COMMENT. — The species occurs in south-western Australia.

COLLECTION DATE. — Possibly between 11 and 13 March 1803.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No data.

COMMENTS. — This species is associated with its collection in King George Sound (Albany, Western Australia) by the crew of the voyage captained by Jules Dumont d’Urville and Charles-Hector Jacquinot aboard the corvette Astrolabe. This species was however illustrated by Lesueur, though it is unknown if any specimens were collected. The artist Lesueur was on Le Géographe, but only Le Naturaliste (14-28 June 1801) and Le Casuarina (11-13 March 1803) have docked at Rottnest Island. The species was not mentioned by naturalist Levillain (1801) during Le Naturaliste’s stopover in 1801, but its description by Rottnest (1803) was referred to by Freycinet ( Freycinet 1815: 169, 172). So, a specimen was possibly collected then and Lesueur could have the opportunity to illustrate the species afterwards.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80062 ( Fig. 112 ; two living animals) ( Baglione & Crémière 2009: 168; Fornasiero et al. 2016: 71).

Figures

FIG. 112. — Kangurus brachyurus Quoy & Gaimard, 1830. Western Australia. Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Watercolour and pencil – 25 × 40 cm. Inv. no. 80062. Credits: MHNH.