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In his catalog of scientific names published between 1801 and 1850, Sherborn has a little over a page of names derived from Linnaeus or Linne.  Some looked probably molluscan, but I have not checked anything else to see if they are synonyms, misidentified, etc.:
Ammonites linneanus d'Orbigny, 1846
Helix linneana Pfeiffer, 1845
Pisidia linneana Leach, 1820
Sigaretus linnaeanus Recluz, 1843
Buccinum linnaei Payraudeau, 1826
Turritella linnaei Deshayes, 1833
Viviparus linnaei Beck, 1846

One of the ways for a species to get named after a taxonomist is for a later worker to discover that one of the earlier worker's names was a junior homonym or otherwise invalid.  As long as Linnaeus remembered which names he had already used, he did not have much occasion to produce junior homonyms.

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