 "pardinus" in 1801, although he queried whether it was a distinct species.However, the German naturalist Jacob Christian Schäffer had in 1762 published "Fungorum qui in Bavaria et Palatinatu circa Ratisbonam nascuntur Icones", in which he described a mushroom he called "Agaricus tigrinus".The illustration accompanying the name fits what we now know as "Tricholoma pardinum", although the description is less clear.