Fig. 2. Illustrations of historical giraffe specimens. A. The ʻGiraffe of Levaillantʼ, anonymous painting made in the late 18th century and early 19th century, exhibited in ʻhôtel de Magnyʼ, Jardin des Plantes in Paris (France). B. The ʻGiraffe from Sennaarʼ, representing a lithography of Zarafa (MNHN-1845-211) and the skull of a giraffe from the Cape region (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1827). C. Drawing of the holotype of Giraffa camelopardalis congoensis Lydekker, 1903 (RMCA-452), housed in the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren (Belgium) (Lydekker 1904). D. Head drawings of the holotypes of G. c. cottoni Lydekker, 1904 (NHMUK-1904.1.21.1, left) and G. g. wardi Lydekker, 1904 (NHMUK-1903.11.18.1, right) (Lydekker 1914).

Published as part of Petzold, Alice, Magnant, Anne-Sophie, Edderai, David, Chardonnet, Bertrand, Rigoulet, Jacques, Saint-Jalme, Michel & Hassanin, Alexandre, 2020, First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens, pp. 1-33 in European Journal of Taxonomy 703 on page 6, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.703, http://zenodo.org/record/3989669