NRM 4601
Blennius gattorugine
Current taxonomic status
Current name Parablennius gattorugine, family Blenniidae (Teleostei: Perciformes).
Specimen data
1 specimen, 101 mm SL
Original description
Blennius Gattorugine Linnaeus, 1758: 256 (type locality: Europa)
Other references
Blennius Gattorugine Linnaeus, 1754: 68
Blennius Gattorugine Linnaeus, 1764: 61
Description of "Blennius gattorugine" in Linnaeus (1754)
Description of Blennius gattorugine in Linnaeus (1764)
Type status
Recognized as only known type specimen of Blennius gattorugine by Fernholm & Wheeler (1983: 266).
Curatorial record
Current catalogue number assigned in 1996.
Labels available from Ulriksdal and Dalman.
Cataloged by Quensel (1800), Swartz (1808) and Dalman (1828).
Original printed label from Museum Adolphi Friderici, Ulriksdal, 18th Century
Label written by J Dalman, around 1820
Remarks
Fernholm & Wheeler (1983: 265-266) discuss the type status of NRM 4601.
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.
[LINNAEUS, C.] 1764. Museum S:ae R:ae M:tis Adolphi Friderici Regis Svecorum, Gothorum, Vandalorumque &c. &c. &c. in quo Animalia rariora imprimis & exotica: Aves, Amphibia, Piscis describuntur. Tomi secundi Prodromus. Holmiae.
Authors: Sven O Kullander (text, scanning), Anders Silfvergrip (photographs)
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