SOLECURTIDAE d’Orbigny, 1846

Coan, Eugene V., Pacaud, Jean-Michel & Kabat, Alan R., 2024, Gérard-Paul Deshayes (1796 - 1875) and his taxa, Geodiversitas 46 (16), pp. 553-930 : 777

Family SOLECURTIDAE d’Orbigny, 1846

dilatatus , Solecurtus – Deshayes, 1860c: 383-384, pl. 14, figs 5-6, ex Sismonda ms. — Type locality: Alsace. — Type age: Pliocene. A nomen nudum in Sismonda (1842: 16; 1847: 21, both as ex F. A. Bonelli ms). — Current status: Solecurtus dilatatus Deshayes, 1860 ( Raffi et al. 1985: 375, as S. dilatatus “Bonelli ”).

lamarckii , Solecurtus ; see following entry.

parisiensis , Solen (Solecurtus) – Deshayes, 1835-HistNatAnim2: 63; 1839-HistNatAnim3: 524; 1839-TraitElem-1(2): 123, 4, pl. 6, figs 14-15, as Solecurtus lamarckii , changed for unknown reasons. A new species based on Solen strigilatus Linnaeus, 1758 , the Recent type species of Solecurtus Blainville, 1824 , but as used byLamarck (1806) for Paris Basin fossil material, as well as his own earlier reference to this species (Deshayes, 1824-DescrCoqFoss: 28, pl. 2, figs 22- 23). — Type localities: near Paris; Valognes & Belgium. — Type age: Eocene (Lutetian). — Current status: synonym of Solecurtus deshayesii Des Moulins, 1832 ( Des Moulins 1832: 106, new species based on Solen strigilatus Linnaeus, 1758 , of Deshayes (1824-DescrCoqFoss: 27), non Linnaeus, 1758) ( Glibert 1936: 155-157, pl. 5, fig. 10, as “ Solenocurtus ”, an unjustified emendation of Solecurtus ).

quoyi , Solen –Deshayes, 1835-HistNatAnim2: 63;1839-HistNatAnim3: 524. — Type locality: southern Pacific Ocean. — Type age: Recent. This new species was probably proposed because he thought that Solen albus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835 [which he mistakenly listed as Solen candidus , a name that does not appear in Quoy & Gaimard], was a junior homonym, non Solen albus (Martyn, 1787) [ Tellina ] ( Huber 2010a: 704).However, with only 11 exceptions, Martyn’s names are unavailable (ICZN Opinions 456 & 479, 1957; Opinion 1662, 1992), and this is not one of the 11; there is no other preoccupying name for a Solen . According to Huber, there is a specimen in the MNHN that may be a syntype.— Solecurtus quoyi Deshayes , of G. B. Sowerby II, 1874: pl. 2, fig. 5, is a different species that Huber (2010a: 704, unavailable; 2010b: 7-8, available) named Solecurtus quaeritus . — Current status: both taxa are now considered synonyms of Solecurtus rhombus (Spengler, 1794) [ Solen ] ( Huber 2010a: 348). However, Poppe (2018: 193) stated that S. rhombus and S. quoyi “are two different valid species;” the Deshayes species was illustrated by Poppe (2011: 366, pl. 1178, figs 5-6).