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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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    Eremina desertorum (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Eremina desertorum (formerly Helix desertorum) is a species of land snails in the genus Eremina. It is native to desert regions in Egypt and Palestine...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Bluespine unicornfish (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    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 (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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  • 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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    Schokari sand racer (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    The Schokari sand racer or Forskal sand snake (Psammophis schokari) is a species of psammophiid snake found in parts of Asia and Africa. Psammophis aegyptius...
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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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    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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    Cowtail stingray (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Monocotylidae) with a description of a new species from Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål) (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatididae) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia"...
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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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    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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    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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    Torpedo (genus) (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    1806 (often cited in catalogs) is a junior homonym of Forsskål's name and cannot be used. Forsskål included only a single species, Raja torpedo Linnaeus...
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  • Peninsula (Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen). It was first described by Peter Forsskål in 1775 as Stapelia quadrangula. "Monolluma quadrangula (Forssk.) Plowes"...
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    Redmouth grouper (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    redmouth grouper was first formally described by the Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål (1732-1763) as Perca rogaa with the type locality given as Jeddah. The...
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    Acanthurus nigrofuscus (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    by the Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist and naturalist Peter Forsskål with its type locality given as Jeddah. The genus Acanthurus is one...
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    Ficus vasta (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Ficus vasta (Amharic: ዋርካ; Warka), (Arabic: تالوقة; Talouqa) is a fig plant found in Ethiopia and Yemen. The tree is a species of sycamore-fig. Ficus vasta...
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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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    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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    Sohal surgeonfish (category Taxa named by Peter Forsskål)
    Finnish naturalist, explorer and orientalist Peter Forsskål with its type locality given as the Red Sea. Forsskål proposed Acanthuirus as a subgenus of Chaetodon...
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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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