Article ID: CBB001202220

Squirrels from the Mariana Islands (south-western Pacific) in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, with Notes on the Mammalian Fauna of this Micronesian Archipelago (2014)

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Two mounted skins of squirrels allegedly originating from the Mariana islands, Micronesia (south western Pacific Ocean) are held in the collections of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden. They may have been collected in the course of a French scientific expedition, commanded by Louis-Claude De Saulses de Freycinet, in 1819. This paper discusses the identifies of the two specimens, their place in the list of mammals recorded from the Mariana Islands, and reflects on the origins of the Mariana Islands' mammalian fauna.

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Authors & Contributors
Matthew Fishburn
Birkhead, Tim R.
Grigson, Caroline
Howes, Hilary S.
Lucas, A. M.
MacGregor, Arthur G.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Historical Records of Australian Science
Intellectual History Review
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Reaktion Books
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Minnesota Press
Concepts
Natural history
Biological specimens
Scientific expeditions
Collectors and collecting
Correspondence and corresponding
Travel; exploration
People
Baudin, Nicolas
Dybowski, Benedykt
Finsch, Otto
Gundlach, Johann Christoph
Home, Everard
Jaques, Francis Lee
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Australia
India
Ireland
Minnesota (U.S.)
Siberia (Russia)
Institutions
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
University of Minnesota
Università di Pisa
East India Company (English)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Bell Museum of Natural History
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