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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Surge wrasse (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    purpureus in 1775 by the Swedish explorer, orientalist and naturalist Peter Forsskål (1732-1763) who gave the type locality as Jeddah. When William John...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    species. The description was based on notes taken by the naturalist Peter Forsskål when he was on the Danish Arabia expedition (1761–67) and was published...
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    was an unnecessary replacement of Chaetodon unicornis described by Peter Forsskål in 1775 from Jeddah. In 1917 David Starr Jordan designated Naso fronticornis...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Orbicular batfish (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    orbicularis by the Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist Peter Forsskål with its type locality given as Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. This species...
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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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    ribbontail ray was originally described as Raja lymma by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål, in his 1775 Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis...
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    Portunus segnis (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus Peter Forsskål with the type locality given as “Mari Rubro”, the Red Sea. It has been...
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    Ficus vasta (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Ficus vasta (Amharic: ዋርካ; warka) is a fig plant found in Ethiopia and Yemen. The tree is a species of sycamore-fig. Ficus vasta is a large tree, with...
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