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Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Balistidae
Species: Balistes albicaudatus  
Cat No: NRM 35965. N=1
Determiner: Unknown
Length:
Preparation: Skin
Continent/Ocean: Unknown
Country: UNKNOWN COUNTRY State/Province:
District: Municipality:
River Drainage: Lake Basin:
Ocean:
Locality: China (Guangdong), South Africa (Cape Town area), Ascension Island, or maybe Jakarta area
Field Number: KVA-GRÖNDAL
Leg: Gröndahl, CF
Date: 1791-1796

Object remarks: B. albicaudus Rüpp No?16 (M.india) (D Gröndal 1800). written by Quensel. Noted in Quensels catalogue of 1800 as Balistes aculeatus.
Locality remarks: Localities given on labels written by C. Quensel c. 1800 are the known distribution of the species obtained from Bloch. C.F. Gröndal (or Gröndahl) 1760-1816 made journeys to South Africa and China 1791-1792 & 1794-1796, maybe also to South America (Olsson, 2012:104). /EIÅ, 1996-2017

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