Cervus axis Erxleben, 1777

Cervus axis Erxleben, 1777: 312 .

COMMON NAME. — Chital Deer.

CURRENT NAME. — Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777) .

See Jackson & Groves (2015: 310).

COLLECTOR/S. — Donation to François Péron.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

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

C OMMENTS. — One record suggests a specimen collected alive and taken to France on board Le Géographe (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172; Girard 1856: 106). Another record suggests two specimens were donated alive at Île de France (Mauritius) (Péron 1804a; Jangoux et al. 2010: 269, 274).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.