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 buccinatus
Lamarck, 1822
(
Figures 14
–
15
)
1822
Fusus buccinatus
Lamarck
: 132
, sp. no. 34
1840a Kiener: 46
, pl. 8, fig. 2
Type
locality:
not stated.
Material in
MHNG
, Lamarck collection:
6 possible syntypes
MHNG
INVE 51737(
ex
MHNG 1098/39) (figured herein,
Fig. 14A
–
C
,
Fig. 15A
–
C
);
1098/39/1
:
32 mm
;
1098/39/2
:
33 mm
;
1098/39/3
:
40 mm
;
1098/39/4
:
33 mm
;
1098/39/5
:
21 mm
;
1098/39/6
:
30 mm
. Locality on the label:
Sénégal
.
Remarks:
According to Rosalie de Lamarck, her father’s collection contained
6 specimens
. However, the sizes of the MHNG specimens do not exactly match those stated by Lamarck.
Current taxonomic position:
Pusionella buccinata
(
Lamarck, 1822
)
; placed in
Pusionella
[
Turridae
] by
Gray (1850)
: 68. Locality is West Africa. Lamarck lists a possible synonymy with
Pusionella vulpina
(
Born, 1778
)
.