Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
1818
Primary Source Reference:
Thomas Say and George Ord, "A New Genus of Mammalia Proposed, and a Description of the Species upon Which It Is Founded," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 4, part 2 (1825): 345-349 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24655463
Additional Source Text:
"Brought from East Florida, in the year 1818, in the collection of Messrs. Maclure, Say, Ord and Peale, and deposited in the Philadelphia Museum."
Notes:
The eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana), also known as the Florida woodrat or bush rat, is a pack rat native to the central and Eastern United States. The image is plate 21 accompanying the Say and Ord article. See also Richard Harlan, Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabiting North America (Philadelphia, 1825), pp. 141-143 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3194439 / where he assigns the name Arvicola floridanus and bases his description on two specimens in the Museum -- this one from Florida and one brought back by the Long expedition (which Titian Ramsay Peale prepared and deposited in the Museum on 23 Mar 1821). Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 112
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Scientific Name:
Neotoma floridana
Current Common Name:
Eastern woodrat
Current Scientific Name
Neotoma floridana
