Echidna setosa É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803a

(Figs 2; 3; 70-72)

Echidna setosa É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803a: 226 .

COMMON NAME. — Short-beaked Echidna .

CURRENT NAME. — Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus (É. Geoffroy SaintHilaire, 1803a).

See Jackson & Groves (2015: 40).

COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, contra Beaufort (1966: 512) who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — King Island, north west Tasmania in Bass Strait according to Péron (1804a). Mahoney (1988: 5) located it to Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia. COLLECTION DATE. — Between 20 and 22 May 1802. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1990-422 (Fig. 2), holotype, skin mount of adult ; and MNHN-ZM-MO-1990-423 (Fig. 3), syntype, skin mount of juvenile (de Beaufort 1966: 511). One specimen of this species embarked alive on Le Naturaliste but have died during the voyage (Jangoux et al. 2010: 268, 271). One was mounted on 14 September 1804 and two on 23 May 1804 (Journal du laboratoire de Zoologie de Vendémiaire an XII à Mars 1806 et de Janvier 1821 à Décembre 1822, par Dufresne).

OTHER NUMBER/S. — Anc. Cat. Gal. 11 & 17, Nouv. Cat. Gal. 5 & 4 (de Beaufort 1966: 511).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80031 and 80032 (Figs 70, 71; living animal) (Baglione & Crémière 2009: 171; Fornasiero et al. 2016: 125), and Inv. no. 80265 (Fig. 72; skeleton) (Baglione & Crémière 2009: 351). The lack of fur in the animal depicted in Figure 70 may suggest this animal was recorded on mainland Australia rather than King Island or Tasmania.