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    Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish-speaking...
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    Mangrove red snapper (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    argentimaculata by the Swedish speaking Finnish born explorer and naturalist Peter Forsskål with the type locality given as the Red Sea. The specific name is a...
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    2021. "salp - Definitions from Dictionary.com". Retrieved 2008-09-28.; Peter Forsskål, in introducing the genus Salpa from waters off Yemen (1763, publication...
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    Capparis decidua (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Capparis decidua, commonly known as karira, is a useful plant in its marginal habitat. It is a small much-branched tree or shrub. It bears a mass of slender...
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    Alternanthera (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Alternanthera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It is a widespread genus with most species occurring in the tropical Americas...
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    Plantago ovata (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Plantago ovata, known by many common names including blond plantain, desert Indianwheat, blond psyllium, and ispaghol, is native to the Mediterranean region...
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    Avicennia (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Avicennia is a genus of flowering plants currently placed in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. It contains mangrove trees, which occur in the intertidal...
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    Themeda triandra (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    strong perfume. Themeda triandra was first formally described in 1775 by Peter Forsskål who published the description in Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. There are...
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    Scylla serrata (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Family: Portunidae Genus: Scylla Species: S. serrata Binomial name Scylla serrata (Forsskål, 1775)...
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  • Peter Forsskål systematically cataloged plants and fishes in the Red Sea area. For genera and species that did not already have Latin names, Forsskål...
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    Pelagia noctiluca (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    (2004). "Pelagia noctiluca (Forsskål, 1775)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 September 2022. Petrus Forsskål; Carsten Niebuhr (1775)...
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    Linnaeus from China. Pehr Forsskål (1732–1763) was born in Finland and became a student of Linnaeus when he was 18 years old. Forsskål was asked if he wanted...
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    described as a distinct species from Egyptian specimens by the biologist Peter Forsskål (1732–1763). He named this mosquito Culex molestus due to its voracious...
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    Milkfish (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    drinks". www.cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved 29 September 2020. "Chanos chanos (Forsskal, 1775)". Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme. FAO Fisheries...
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    Lethrinus nebulosus (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    nebulosa by the Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist Peter Forsskål and published in 1775 in Descriptiones animalium edited by Carsten Niebuhr...
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    Oncoba (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Oncoba is a genus of African plants in the family Salicaceae. It contains the following species: Oncoba brachyanthera Oliv. Oncoba breteleri Hul Oncoba...
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    Avicennia marina (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Avicennia marina, commonly known as grey mangrove or white mangrove, is a species of mangrove tree classified in the plant family Acanthaceae (formerly...
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    explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus Peter Forsskål with its type locality given as Jeddah. In 1801 the French zoologist...
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    Maesa (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Maesa is a genus of flowering plants. It is placed in the family Primulaceae, subfamily Maesoideae, for which it is the sole genus (monotypic). Previously...
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    Argiope trifasciata (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    birds flying through them. "ITIS standard report – Argiope trifasciata (Forsskål, 1775)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 December...
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    Melicertus kerathurus (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    "Caramote Prawn". Lorpex Fish. Retrieved 2 January 2017. "Penaeus kerathurus (Forsskål, 1775)". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved...
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    Eremina desertorum (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Eremina desertorum (formerly Helix desertorum) is a species of land snails in the genus Eremina. A specimen from Egypt, in the British Museum, and thought...
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    under cultivation in Egypt since late medieval times. The botanist Peter Forsskål visited Egypt in the early–1760s and noted that it was called ليف lūf...
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    on steep banks. It was named after Finnish explorer and naturalist Peter Forsskål, a student of Carl Linnaeus who collected plants in southwest Arabia...
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    Uromastyx aegyptia (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Uromastyx aegyptia is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to North Africa and the Middle East. Common names for U. aegyptia...
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    Blepharis edulis (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Blepharis edulis (Hindi : uttanjan) is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is found in India, Pakistan and Iran as well as Egypt (including...
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    Dryander Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart Johan Christian Fabricius Johan Peter Falk Peter Forsskål Leonard Gyllenhaal Birger Martin Hall Fredric Hasselquist Pehr...
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    Indo-Pacific to Northern Australia. The species was first described by Peter Forsskål in 1775 and originally given the name Medusa cephea. It inhabits the...
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    Phronima sedentaria (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Genus: Phronima Species: P. sedentaria Binomial name Phronima sedentaria (Forsskål, 1775)  Synonyms  Cancer sedentarius Forskål, 1775 Phronima atlantica Guérin-Meneville...
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    nigra by the Swedish speaking Finnish-born explorer and naturalist Peter Forsskål with the type locality given as Jeddah. The specific name niger means...
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