NRM Ichthyology Type Collection — Museum Adolphi Friderici

NRM 88

Squalus zygaena

Current taxonomic status
Current name Sphyrna zygaena, family Lamnidae (Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes).

Specimen data
1 specimen, 215 mm TL

Original description
Squalus Zygaena Linnaeus, 1758: 234 (type locality: Europa, America)

Other references
Squalus zygaena Linnaeus, 1754: 52


Description of "Squalus zygaena" in Linnaeus (1754)

Type status
Recognized as only surviving syntype specimen of Squalus zygaena by Fernholm & Wheeler (1983: 208).

Curatorial record
Current catalogue number assigned in 1996.
Labels available from Ulriksdal and Bergström.
Cataloged by Swartz (1808) and Dalman (1828).


Original printed label from Museum Adolphi Friderici, Ulriksdal, 18th Century

Remarks
Linnaeus (1758) described Squalus zygaena with references to several literature sources, including his own treatise in Museum Adolphi Friderici of 1754. No specimens are known to exist from any of the other descriptions.

Literature cited
FERNHOLM, B. & A. WHEELER. 1983. Linnaean fish specimens in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 78: 199-286.
LINNAEUS, C. 1754. Hans Maj:ts Adolf Frideriks vår allernådigste konungs naturalie samling innehållande sällsynte och främmande djur, som bevaras på kongl. lust-slottet Ulriksdahl beskrefne och afritade samt på nådig befallning utgifne af Carl Linnaeus. Stockholm.
LINNAEUS, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae.

Authors: Sven O Kullander (text, scanning), Anders Silfvergrip (photographs)
Copyright © 1997 Swedish Museum of Natural History and the authors.
Disclaimer: This document is not to be considered as published in the sense of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and statements herein are not herewith made available for purposes of zoological nomenclature.

Museum Adolphi Friderici Fish Catalogue


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