Animal Bodies between Wonder and Natural History: Taxidermy in the Cabinet and Menagerie of Stadholder Willem V (1748–1806)

Reversal of precedence: The oldest available name of the Javan gibbon and a complete synonymy of the species

“…Unaffected by the reversal of precedence, the name-bearing type of the Javan gibbon remains a mounted specimen preserved at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris (specimen number: MNHN-ZM-2005-970; photograph in Hendriksen ( 2019 )). It was prominently illustrated alongside Audebert's (1797) description (Fig.…”

“…1 c), which also indicates one non-depicted syntype, and was designated as a lectotype by Rode ( 1938 ) (he referred to it as a holotype, which is an invalid assignment according to Article 73.1.3 (ICZN 1999) since it has not been designated as such by the species’ describer). Originally, the lectotype specimen derives from the Dutch Stadholder’s collection that was curated by Arnout Vosmaer (Rode 1938 ; Hendriksen 2019 ). The latter is also known to have requested gibbons from the Royal Batavian Society for the Stadholder’s menagerie.…”

“…Whether the lectotype specimen was initially intended to be presented alive at the Dutch menagerie remains obscure. It eventually arrived in Paris following the seizure of the Stadholder’s collection by French authorities in 1795, shortly after the defeat of the Dutch republic in the Coalition wars (Lipkowitz 2014 ; Hendriksen 2019 ).…”