Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva
Author
Finet, Yves
Author
Snyder, Martin Avery
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Zootaxa
2012
2012-10-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1
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Fusus colosseus
Lamarck, 1816
1816
Fusus collosseus
Lamarck
: 6
, pl. 427, fig. 2
1822
Fusus colosseus
Lamarck
: 122
, sp. no. 1
1832
Fusus colosseus
(Lamarck) Deshayes
: 155
1840a Kiener: 50
, pl. 25
Type
locality:
not stated.
Material in
MHNG
, Lamarck collection:
no material. Rosalie
de Lamarck’s
marginal notations indicate that there were originally
2 specimens
in her father’s collection. These
2 syntypes
have not been found and the only specimen in the Delessert collection does not match the size given by Lamarck (11 pouces 4 lignes = about
307 mm
). The Delessert specimen measures
365 mm
.
Remarks:
the original spelling was emended to
colosseus
by W.
Wood (1818)
: 125, pl. 26, fig. 72.
Current taxonomic position:
Hemifusus colosseus
(
Lamarck, 1816
)
; is the
type
species of
Hemifusus
Swainson, 1840
[
Melongenidae
].