Felis leo Linnaeus, 1758

Felis leo Linnaeus, 1758: 41 .

COMMON NAME. — Lion.

CURRENT NAME. — Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) .

See Wozencraft (2005: 546).

COLLECTOR/S. — Donated to François Péron.

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — No data. Probably Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

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

C OMMENTS. — Two young female lions collected and taken alive back to France on board Le Géographe (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 171; Girard 1856: 96; Péron 1804a; Jangoux et al. 2010: 269, 275).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.