From the shadows of the past: Moricand senior and junior, two 19 th century naturalists from Geneva, with their newly described taxa and molluscan types
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
Author
Tardy, Emmanuel
Department of Invertebrates, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, CP 6434, CH- 1211 Genève, Switzerland.
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2016
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journal article
203549
10.5281/zenodo.46292
59e37f50-05dc-43e2-9954-f33875cbb0c6
0035-418
46292
leucostoma
,
Helix
(
Cochlogena
)
pudica
[var. α], S. Moricand, 1836
b: 438.
No
type
locality given. (
Strophocheilidae
).
– Remarks. No material was found that could be unambiguously attributed as
type
material. Lot MHNG-INVE-65479 has a label “peristomate albo”; another label in Mermod’s hand reveals that
11 specimens
have been sent to Bequaert in 1947. In his revision of this group Bequaert considered this variety as a synonym of the nominate taxon (
Bequaert, 1948: 19
, 29).