There exists:
Hazay (J.) Die Mollusken Fauna von Budapest, pp. 187, with 15 plates (4 coloured), 8vo, Casell, 1881
= Rare and well-illustrated paper containing several new taxa, including Amalia (now Tandonia) budapestensis. Most plates show shells, others show radulae, living snails or both. Originally published in the Malakozoologische Blätter, this being the simultanously published "Extra-Abdruck". Not in Nissen.
I have a copy somewhere but it might take me a while to dig up.
Regards,
Scott
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From: David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [CONCH-L] Help finding Hazay paper on European freshwater mollusks
I am trying to find a paper written between 1881 and 1905 by Hazay on
Hungarian (and possibly other central European) freshwater mollusks;
he probably would have mentioned land snails, too. Unfortunately, I
don't have better bibliographic information than that.
In the late 1800's to early 1900's, a group of malacologists known as
the "Nouvelle Ecole" (acute accent should be on the first E of Ecole)
named every variation in nonmarine mollusks that they found. This
resulted in huge lists of synonyms. However, occasionally a
previously undescribed form would get a name, too. Thus, it is
necessary when dealing with one of the faunas they treated to try to
identify their taxa.
Servain (1881) named numerous genera and species in a paper on Lake
Balaton, in Hungary, almost all of them of doubtful biological value.
He did not always identify type species of the genera. Although in
many cases Nouvelle Ecole genera were derived from species names, they
were not usually tautonymous, so a later revisor could disregard the
recommendation in the Code (if the Code existed at the time of the
revisor) and select a type other than the obvious choice.
Dall (1905, Harriman Alaska Expedition) reviewed lymnaeids generally.
He cited Hazay as an authority for disregarding Servain's taxa as mere
ecophenotypic variation. Baker (1911) essentially quotes Dall on the
subject. However, neither bothered to give a citation for Hazay. I
want to know if Hazay designated type species, or if he just said that
Servain's taxa should be ignored, or what. Does anyone have an idea
on the reference or a good bibliography of Central European mollusk
publications from 1881 to 1905 or other clues? There are a few Hazay
papers available in Malakolozoologishe Blatter on Google Books, but I
haven't tracked down a Servain reference in them yet (not helped by my
rather limited knowledge of German, and there's always the possibiity
that he did not explicitly mention Servain by name but simply made
passing derogatory comments-sentiments for or against the Nouvelle
Ecole tended to be strong).
Kruglov and Starobogatov give later type designations, but they might
have overlooked something early.
--
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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