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Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Molidae
Species: Mola mola   klumpfisk
Cat No: NRM 37495. N=1
Determiner: Åhlander, E 1997
Length:
Preparation: Skin
Continent/Ocean: Europe
Country: SWEDEN State/Province: Västra Götalands län
District: Bohuslän Municipality:
River Drainage: Lake Basin:
Ocean: Atlantic Ocean
Locality: Skagerrak: probably landed near Uddevalla
Field Number: KVA-BERGIUS
Leg: Bergius, PJ
Date: to 1786

Object remarks: No label. All information obtained while comparing catalogues of Hornstedt, Quensel, Swartz, Dalman, Sundevall with present specimens. See also my notes on old Mola mola in Verte archive /EIÅ, 1997. Bergius' specimen was sent on exchange to Berlin in 1860s according to Sundevall's "dublett-katalog"/EIÅ, 2005.
Locality remarks: Donated in 1786. AJ Retzius writes in 1785 (KVA Handl.): "Ibland de sällsyntare Hafsdjur vid Svenska Strander är ofelbart _Tetrodon Mola_ (Tab. IV). Mig äro åtminstone icke bekanta mer än tre exemplar däraf, såsom tagna på Svensk bottn: et nemligen ej långt ifrån Uddevalla, et vid Halmstad och et vid Landskrona. Det första vet jag intet mera om, än att det uppstoppadt skall finnas hos Apotekaren Herr Bergius i Uddevalla. Det andra..."

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