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.