Taken from Weaver & du Pont, 1970 right?! Thanks!
Any clue where voluta fusiformis Kiener should be? I´ve checked
the Paris Museum and it seem it is not there...

Fabio Wiggers.


If this information can help you, this is the list of synonyms
of
Alcithoe fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Synonymy:
1824 Voluta gracilis Swainson, Quart. Jour. Sci.: 33-34 (non
Voluta gracilis Dilwyn, 1923, in Colombellidae; non Wood, 1828,
= Voluta ancilla Lightfoot, 1786 )
1833 Voluta fusus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833, Voyage de l'Astrolabe,
Zoologie 2(2): 627-628, pl. 44, figs 7-8.
1839 Voluta elongata Swainson, Kiener, Icon. Coquilles Vivantes,
Voluta 3: 45-46, pl. 45, fig. 2 (non Voluta elongata Swinson,
1821 = Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791)
1873 Voluta subplicata Hutton, Catalogue of the marine Mollusca
of New Zealand, p. 18.
1882 Voluta pacifica var. gracilis Swainson, Tryon, Man. Of
Conch. (1)4: 94, pl.28, fig. 99.
1906 Fulgoraria (Alcithoe) gracilis Swainson, Murdoch & Suter,
Trans. N.Z. Inst. (1905) 38: 287.
1913 Fulgoraria gracilis Swainson, Suter, Manual of the N.Z.
Mollusca 56: 300, fig. 8.
1937 Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus Quoy & Gaimard, Iredale, Rec.
Austr. Mus. 20(2): 105.

and some of Adelomelon becki (Broderip, 1836)
1839 Voluta fusiformis Kiener,. Icono. Coquilles vivantes,
Voluta 3: 41, pl. 49. (non Voluta fusiformis, Brocchi 1814 =
fossil species, non Turton; 1819; non Swainson, 1822 = Ericusa
sowerbyi (Kiener, 1839)
1895 Voluta fusiformis Kiener, Lahille Rev. Mus. de la Plata 6:
300, pl. 1, figs. 14-15; pl. 3, figs. 21-23.




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