Dear Dick and Kovalis,

You make it sound easy, Dick. Eventually I'll
learn to go to Sherborn and "2400 years" first!

I have a feeling that the type figures of S.
lamarckii Chenu are those depicting the (one?)
specimen in figs. 4, 4a, and 4b on  plate 9: "S. Ducalis var. b".

Do Finet and Lamprell restrict it thus?

Dick, since you have no. (2) below - and maybe no
(3), can you refine my putative no. (1)?

Harry

(1) Chenu, J.-C., "1842." Illustrations
conchyliologiques ou description et figures de
toutes les coquilles connues vivantes et
fossiles, classées suivant le système de Lamarck modifié
         d'après les progrès de la science et
comprenant les genres nouveaux et les espèces
rècemment découvertes. Tome 2. Fortin, Masson,
Langlois, and Leclercq, Paris.
[Spondylus:    more than 5 pp; plates 1-32, captions date(s)?]
(2) Finet, Y. and K. Lamprell, 2008. The
Spondylidae in the historical collections of the
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, with
revision of the species described by Lamarck and
Chenu, and         notes on nomenclature. Archiv
für Molluskenkunde 137(1): 1-73, incl. 30 pls.
(3) Sherborn, C.D. and E.A Smith, 1911. A
collation of J. C. Chenu’s Illustrations
Conchyliologiques and a note on P. L. Duclos’
Histoire gen. et part. coquilles. Proceedings of
the   Malacological Society of London 9(4): 264-267.

Thanks,
Harry


At 09:43 AM 7/3/2009, you wrote:
>A good place to start looking for a reference is
>"2400 Years of Malacology."  It is on line at
><http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.html>http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.html.
>Under Chenu you will find a reference to a part
>of his Conch. Ill. that is on-line at
><http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/chenu/conchilia_tafeln_2/>http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/chenu/conchilia_tafeln_2/
>
>
>Also listed is a paper by Finet & Lamprell,
>2008, Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 137(1):1-73, 30
>plates, that is devoted to Chenu's Spondylidae.
>
>Spondylus lamarckii Chenu, 1843, is, as listed
>by Sherborn in Index Animalium (also on-line),
>on Page 6. It is on Plate 9, figs. 3 & 4 with
>Plate legend "Spondylus ducalis
>Lamarck."  Evidently there was some confusion
>about this species as Chenu evidently later
>realized that S. lamarckii was a synonym of S.
>ducalis.  This is all discussed by Finet &
>Lamprell.  They state that Spondylus lamarckii
>is a junior synonym of S. ducalis Lamarck. They figure the type.
>
>You can see Chenu's figures on-line if you will
>go to the site listed above and click on Spondylus ducalis in the index.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>dick p.

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