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Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ictaluridae
Species: Ameiurus catus  
Cat No: NRM 37816. N=1
Determiner: Quensel, C 1800
Length:
Preparation: Skin
Continent/Ocean: Unknown
Country: UNKNOWN COUNTRY State/Province: Unknown
District: Municipality:
River Drainage: Lake Basin:
Ocean:
Locality: No data. From the old collection. Oldest label written by C. Quensel and/or listed in Quensel's catalogue of 1800
Field Number: KVA-QUENSEL1800
Leg: Unknown
Date: 1800 or earlier

Object remarks: Name updated from Pimelodus catus and Silurus catus. Oldest label from Sundevall's time: Pimelodus catus (L.), Amer.septemtr., Coll.vet.". Quensel's catalogue (1800) states: "Silurus Catus Lin. 1357 - Bonnat. pl. 62 f. 249 - Radiis P:ae V. & A.20 & cirris 8 convenit cum descriptione, at cauda in nostro integra nec uit in fig:a bifida. Block illum non pinnit. Hab in America & Asiae aquis dulcibus."
Locality remarks: Date of collecting and accession antedates 1 Jan 1801. Number on label (when present) is page number in Syst.Nat. XIII and locality (like Amboina) is taken from that paper.

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