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Type specimens3
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Department

Ichthyology2
Botany1

Island

Rarotonga3

Family

Scaridae1
Salicaceae1
Holocentridae1

Country

Cook Islands1

When collected

1890s1900s

3 specimens

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Homalium acuminatum

Homalium acuminatum

BISH 509457

Cheeseman, T.F., 1899
Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Calotomus carolinusHolotype

BPBM 1903 · A. Seale, 1902

Rarotonga

Sargocentron hormionParatype

BPBM 1972 · A. Seale, 1902

Rarotonga

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