Fasciolaria trapezium ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 11

Fasciolaria trapezium ( Linnaeus, 1758)

1758 Murex trapezium Linnaeus : 755 , sp. no. 493

1816 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus) Lamarck : 7, pl. 431, figs. 3a, b

1822 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus) Lamarck : 119, sp. no. 3

1830 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus)) Deshayes : 125

1840b Kiener: 8, pl. 6

Locality of Lamarck’s material: l’Océan des grandes Indes.

Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51694 (ex MHNG 1097/96 ), 95.5 mm . 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51698 (ex MHNG 1097/100 ), 18 cm, bearing a faded handwritten label inside the aperture of the shell, Fasc. Trapezium, written by Lamarck . Locality on label of specimen 51694: Océan Indien. Label of specimen 51698 missing.

Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, two specimens were in her father’s collection. Neither of these specimens seems to match Lamarck’s or Kiener’s figures.

Current taxonomic position: Pleuroploca trapezium ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; type species of Pleuroploca Fischer, 1884 [ Fasciolariidae ]. Locality is Indo – Pacific.