Fusus tuberculatus Lamarck, 1822

Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Zootaxa 3507 (1), pp. 1-37 : 6-7

Fusus tuberculatus Lamarck, 1822

( Figure 11 )

1816 Fusus colus Lamarck : 6, pl. 424, fig. 4

1822 Fusus tuberculatus Lamarck : 123, sp. no. 4

1832 Fusus tuberculatus (Lamarck) Deshayes : 149

1840a Kiener: 9, pl. 7, fig. 1

Type locality: l’Océan des Grandes Indes .

Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 2 syntypes MHNG INVE 51707 (ex MHNG 1098/9) (figured herein, Fig. 11A – B ); 1098/9/1 : 120 mm; 1098/9/2 : 111.3 mm. One probable syntype MHNG INVE 51706 (ex MHNG 1098/8 ) (figured herein, Fig. 11C ) , 128.5 mm. Locality on the label: Océan Indien.

Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, her father’s collection contained three specimens. G. Mermod (former curator of molluscs at MHNG) noted that the specimen 1098/9/1 is the one figured in the Tableau, while it is difficult to say which one of these three was figured by Kiener. We have some doubts as to whether 1098/9/1 is the figured specimen since the size does not quite match. On the other hand, specimen 1098/9/2 bears a faded handwritten inscription by Lamarck inside its aperture, and thus is surely one of his original specimens.

Current taxonomic position: Fusinus tuberculatus ( Lamarck, 1822) ; placed in Fusinus by Melvill (1928): 107. Unnecessarily renamed Fusus maculiferus by Tapparone - Canefri (1875). Locality is east Africa.

Figures

FIGURE 11A–B. Syntypes of Fusus tuberculatus, MHNG INVE 51707. C. Probable syntype of Fusus tuberculatus, MHNG INVE 51706.