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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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Scientific expeditions Biological specimens Mammalogy Natural history 19th century France Islands of the Pacific

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
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Barbara Coffin
Robert Rutkowski
Lansing Shepard
Dominika Mierzwa-Szymkowiak
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Intellectual History Review
Historical Records of Australian Science
Publishers
University of Minnesota Press
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Tectum Verlag
Concepts
Natural history
Biological specimens
Scientific expeditions
Collectors and collecting
Museum exhibits
Taxidermy
People
Baudin, Nicolas
Roe, John Septimus
Martin, Philipp Leopold
Godlewski, Wiktor
Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Jones, William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Australia
Great Britain
Antarctica
Pisa (Italy)
Galapagos Islands
England
Institutions
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Pisa
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Wernerian Natural History Society
Bell Museum of Natural History
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Università di Pisa
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