Recently, I have been somewhat obsessed with assembling a species list of the specimens held at the Paris natural history museum. Having been multiple times, I have assembled a decent library of photos but couldn't remember many additional species. I have posted my list as complete as I can get it down below, but I was wondering if anyone else had had this idea before me and assembled a species list. A list for either of the Grande Galerie de L'evolution or la Galerie d'anatomie comparee et de paleontologie would be fantastic, and for both would be out of this world. I'm not expecting anybody to have done it of course - it is an immense task. At any rate, I will try to compile one myself on my next visit. Here is my very incomplete list based on photos and focusing almost uniquely on the large mammals given I only really took photos of them:
Grande Galerie:
Mammals:
Primates:
Aye-aye
Bornean orangutan
White-faced saki
Fishes:
Ocean sunfish
Coelacanth
Basking shark
Extinct taxa:
Pyrenean ibex
Quagga
Schomburgk's deer
Dodo
Toolache wallaby
Eastern hare wallaby
Lesser bilby
Crescent nailtail wallaby
Steller's sea cow
Birds:
Harpy eagle
Southern cassowary
Greater flamingo
Purple heron
Caribbean flamingo
Demoiselle crane
Toco toucan
Reptiles:
Green anaconda
Gharial
Red/yellow footed tortoise
Nile monitor
Anatomie comparee
Mammals:
Proboscis monkey
Sunda pangolin
South American fur seal
Sumatran rhino
Javan tiger
Jaguar
Walrus
Blue whale
Narwhal
Giraffe
Risso's dolphin
Amazon river dolphin
Ganges river dolphin
Crab-eating macaque
Common eland
Northern bottlenose whale
Reptiles:
Saltwater crocodile
Fishes:
Rock beauty
Grande Galerie:
Mammals:
Primates:
Aye-aye
Bornean orangutan
White-faced saki
Cherry-crowned mangabey
? Spot-nosed guenon
Guinea baboon
Verreaux's sifaka
? Spot-nosed guenon
Guinea baboon
Verreaux's sifaka
Carnivorans:
Falanouc
Cheetah
Spotted hyena
African leopard
Giant panda
Weddell seal
Jaguar
North-Chinese or Amur leopard
Bengal tiger
Sumatran tiger
Walrus
Harp seal
Southern elephant seal
Caracal
European badger
African wild dog
Red fox
Asiatic lion
African lion
Eurasian lynx
Grey wolf
Striped hyena
Cheetah
Spotted hyena
African leopard
Giant panda
Weddell seal
Jaguar
North-Chinese or Amur leopard
Bengal tiger
Sumatran tiger
Walrus
Harp seal
Southern elephant seal
Caracal
European badger
African wild dog
Red fox
Asiatic lion
African lion
Eurasian lynx
Grey wolf
Striped hyena
Ungulates + Cetaceans + elephants
African elephant
Hippopotamus
White rhino
Grevy's zebra
Grant's zebra
Reticulated giraffe
Rothschild's giraffe
Topi
Bushbuck
Uganda kob
Bushbuck
Buffon's kob
Waterbuck
Sable antelope
Black rhino
Cape buffalo
Blue wildebeest
Common warthog
Asian elephant
Right whale
Red river hog
Bongo
Collared peccary
Brazilian tapir
Klipspringer
Greater kudu
Hartebeest
Indian rhinoceros
Wild boar
Moose
Dromedary
Dama gazelle
Other:
Cuban solenodon
Dugong
Ground pangolin
Giant armadillo
European hare
Agouti spp.
Giant anteater
African crested porcupine
Aardvark
Hippopotamus
White rhino
Grevy's zebra
Grant's zebra
Reticulated giraffe
Rothschild's giraffe
Topi
Bushbuck
Uganda kob
Bushbuck
Buffon's kob
Waterbuck
Sable antelope
Black rhino
Cape buffalo
Blue wildebeest
Common warthog
Asian elephant
Right whale
Red river hog
Bongo
Collared peccary
Brazilian tapir
Klipspringer
Greater kudu
Hartebeest
Indian rhinoceros
Wild boar
Moose
Dromedary
Dama gazelle
Other:
Cuban solenodon
Dugong
Ground pangolin
Giant armadillo
European hare
Agouti spp.
Giant anteater
African crested porcupine
Aardvark
Fishes:
Ocean sunfish
Coelacanth
Basking shark
Extinct taxa:
Barbary lion
Cape lion
BluebuckCape lion
Pyrenean ibex
Quagga
Schomburgk's deer
Dodo
Toolache wallaby
Eastern hare wallaby
Lesser bilby
Crescent nailtail wallaby
Steller's sea cow
Birds:
Harpy eagle
Southern cassowary
Greater flamingo
Purple heron
Caribbean flamingo
Demoiselle crane
Toco toucan
Marabou stork
Grey crowned crane
Helmeted guineafowl
Great white pelican
Red-billed hornbill
Shoebill
Emperor penguin
Kiwi sp.
Grey crowned crane
Helmeted guineafowl
Great white pelican
Red-billed hornbill
Shoebill
Emperor penguin
Kiwi sp.
Reptiles:
Green anaconda
Gharial
Red/yellow footed tortoise
Nile monitor
Anatomie comparee
Mammals:
Proboscis monkey
Sunda pangolin
South American fur seal
Sumatran rhino
Javan tiger
Jaguar
Walrus
Blue whale
Narwhal
Giraffe
Risso's dolphin
Amazon river dolphin
Ganges river dolphin
Crab-eating macaque
Common eland
Northern bottlenose whale
Antillean manatee
African manatee
African elephant
Cape buffalo
Moose
Dugong
Hippopotamus
Cheetah
Giant panda
Striped hyena
Spotted hyena
Meerkat
Venezuelan red howler
Brown woolly monkey
Nilgiri langur
Mitered langur
West Javan langur
Malayan sun bear
Grey brocket
Mountain goat
Cape grysbok
Long-beaked echidna spp.
African manatee
African elephant
Cape buffalo
Moose
Dugong
Hippopotamus
Cheetah
Giant panda
Striped hyena
Spotted hyena
Meerkat
Venezuelan red howler
Brown woolly monkey
Nilgiri langur
Mitered langur
West Javan langur
Malayan sun bear
Grey brocket
Mountain goat
Cape grysbok
Long-beaked echidna spp.
Birds:
Kakapo
African grey parrot
Rhinoceros hornbill
Sacred ibis
Peregrine falcon
African grey parrot
Rhinoceros hornbill
Sacred ibis
Peregrine falcon
Reptiles:
Saltwater crocodile
Fishes:
Rock beauty