Canidae, unknown species

COMMON NAME. — Unknown.

CURRENT NAME. — Unknown.

COLLECTOR/S. — No data.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Donated to the Baudin expedition by the Governor-General at Cape Town, South Africa (Péron 1804a).

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

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

COMMENTS. — Péron (1804a) used the name “ Canis laniger (Sp. N.)”, and gave the location as “ Cape le Bonne esperance” (Cape of Good Hope), suggesting it is a new species but he did not publish the name. It is unknown if the taxon being referred to was from the genus Canis . Hodgson (1847: 474) subsequently applied the unrelated name Canis laniger to a canid from Tibet.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.