memory by magnifying his faults and frequently distorting the historical record. In the wake of the resumed fighting between France and Britain, Péron also drafted a secret Mémoire sur les établissements anglais à la Nouvelle Hollande, which advocated a French conquest of Port Jackson with the aid of rebellious Irish convicts. Péron died of tuberculosis in his hometown of Cérilly in 1810. He was just thirty-five years old. The task of completing the official account of the expedition fell to Louis de Freycinet. Taxa named in honour of Péron Several species of reptiles, amphibians and mammals were named in honour of Péron: Litoria peronii (Tschudi, 1838) – Péron’s treefrog (Hylidae) Limnodynastes peronii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1841) – striped marsh frog (Limnodynastidae) Carlia peronii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Timor rainbow skink (Scincidae) Hemiergis peronii (Gray, 1831) - lowland earless skink (Scincidae) Acalyptophis peronii (A.M.C. Duméril, 1853) – spiny seasnake (Elapidae) Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804) – southern right whale dolphin (Delphinidae) Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri (Goy, 1990) – a jellyfish (Mastigiidae). The specific epithet also honors Charles Alexandre Lesueur of the Baudin expedition. Taxa described by Péron In the 1807 first volume of Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, Péron described a number of frog species collected on his travels, but most are considered incertae sedis today i.e. Rana pollicifera and Rana pustulosa in Anura, Hyla ianopoda, Hyla nebulosa, Hyla ocellata and Hyla rubeola in Hylidae : Pelodryadinae, and Bufo leucogaster and Bufo proteus in Myobatrachidae. Hyla cyanea was synonymised with Litoria caerulea (White, 1790) - White's treefrog, but Hyla citripoda does survive as a valid species, Litoria citropa (Péron, 1807) - Blue Mountains treefrog. See also :Category:Taxa named by François Péron. Publications —— Observations sur l’anthropologie, ou l’Histoire naturelle de l’homme, la nécessité de s’occuper de l’avancement de cette science, et l’importance de l’admission sur la Flotte du capitaine Baudin d’un ou de plusieurs Naturalistes, spécialement chargés des Recherches à faire sur cet objet, Stoupe, Paris, an VIII [1800]. —— Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté, l’Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804, L’Imprimerie Impériale, 3 vols and atlas, Paris, 1807–17; vol. i, Historique, 1807; vol. ii, Historique [completed by L. de Freycinet], 1816; vol. iii, Navigation et géographie [by L. de Freycinet], 1815; Atlas historique [by