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Forsskål, P.; Niebuhr, C. (1775). Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica. Hauniæ [Copenhagen]:ex officina Mölleri.[alternative spelling Forskål is also correct].
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Forsskål, P.; Niebuhr, C.
1775
Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica. Hauniæ [Copenhagen]:ex officina Mölleri.[alternative spelling Forskål is also correct]
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the spelling Forskål (in Latin) was used in the publication, however the author used normally Forsskål. Both version are correct, but Forsskål is more commonly used. See Fricke (2008), Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 1: 1–76 and also Friis, I. & Thulin, M. (1984): The spelling of Pehr Forsskål’s family name. – Taxon 33 (4): 668–672.
for some plates of this work see Forsskål P., Niebuhr C.E. 1776. Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål, Prof. Haun. Post mortem auctoris ad Regis mandatum æri incisas edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Copenhagen: Mölleri, pp. 15, pls 43. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/141292#page/7/mode/1up
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Fistularia Forsskål, 1775 (original description)
Holothuria spirans Forsskål, 1775 accepted as Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758) (basis of record)
Physophora Forsskål, 1775 (original description)
Salpa Forskål, 1775 (original description)
Salpa maxima Forskål, 1775 (original description)
 Type locality

"Lohayae" [= Al-Luhayya, Yemen] [details]

 Type locality

"Inter Kahiram et Sues" [details]

 Type locality

"Ad lacum Mareotidem prope Alexandriam" [details]

 Type locality

"Prope Alexandriam Aegypti specimen unicum, prope Berytum Syriae 6 legimus" [details]

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