Albert Mousson

Albert Mousson
Albert Mousson
Albert Mousson
Born (1805-03-17)March 17, 1805
Solothurn, Switzerland
Died November 16, 1890(1890-11-16) (aged 85)
Scientific career
Fields physics, malacology

Albert Mousson, full name Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson, (17 March 1805, Solothurn – 16 November 1890) was a physicist and a malacologist from Switzerland.[1][2]

Taxa described

Gastropods

Taxa described by Albert Mousson include (sorted chronologically):

1847

  • Cochlostoma apricum (Mousson, 1847)[3]

1848

1849

  • Asperitas rareguttata Mousson, 1849
  • Melampus granifer (Mousson, 1849)
  • Sulcospira infracostata (Mousson, 1849)
  • Sulcospira sulcospira (Mousson, 1849)
  • Tylomelania perfecta (Mousson, 1849)[4]

1854

  • Albinaria virgo (Mousson, 1854)[5]
  • Assyriella bellardii (Mousson, 1854)[5]
  • Caucasotachea nordmanni (Mousson, 1854)[5]
  • Chondrus limbodentatus var. abbreviatus Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Chondrus truquii Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Euchondrus limbodentatus (Mousson, 1854)[5]
  • Helix nucula Mousson, 1854[5]
  • Helix nicosiana var. pallida Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix pomacella Mousson, 1854[5]
  • Levantina caesareana (Mousson, 1854)[5]
  • Melanopsis brevis Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Metafruticicola nicosiana (Mousson, 1854)[5]
  • Neritina bellardii Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Orculella sirianocoriensis (Mousson, 1854)[5]
  • Paludina badiella Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Pupa lindermeyeri Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Truncatella hammerschmidtiana Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)
  • Helicigona hymetti (Mousson, 1854)[6]
  • Helix olivieri var. dilucida Mousson, 1854[6] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix meridionalis Mousson, 1854[6] (no current allocation known)
  • Asperitas sparsa Mousson, 1854
  • Cernuella jonica (Mousson, 1854)

1856

  • Clausilia firmata Mousson, 1856[7] (no current allocation known)
  • Clausilia multilamellata Mousson, 1856[7] (no current allocation known)
  • Clausilia unilamellata Mousson, 1856[7] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix squamulosa Mousson, 1856[7] (no current allocation known)
  • Pilorcula trifilaris (Mousson, 1856)[7]
  • Pontophaedusa funiculum (Mousson, 1856)[7]
  • Pupa schlaeflii Mousson, 1856[7] (no current allocation known)

1857

  • Asperitas sparsa baliensis Mousson, 1857
  • Asperitas waandersiana (Mousson, 1857) / Asperitas trochus waandersiana Mousson, 1857
  • Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
  • Theba clausoinflata (Mousson, 1857)
  • Theba geminata (Mousson, 1857)
  • Theba impugnata (Mousson, 1857)

1858

  • Balea nitida Mousson, 1858

1859

  • Allaegopis transiens (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Bulimus subtilis var. corcyrensis Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Bulimus tumidus Mousson, 1859[8]
  • Clausilia auriformis Mousson, 1859[8]
  • Helicigona subzonata (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Helix ambigua Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix ambigua var. borealis Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix corcyrensis var. cefalonica Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix sericea var. epirotica Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix corcyrensis var. octogyrata Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Helix schlaeflii Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Mastus grandis (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Monacha frequens (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Montenegrina janinensis Mousson, 1859[8]
  • Montenegrina rugilabris (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Napaeopsis cefalonica (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Isabellaria vallata (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Planorbis janinensis Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Poiretia compressa (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Pupa philippii var. exigua Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Pupa minutissima var. obscura Mousson, 1859[8] (no current allocation known)
  • Viviparus janinensis (Mousson, 1859)[8]
  • Xeromunda vulgarissima (Mousson, 1859)[8]

1861

  • Euchondrus albulus (Mousson, 1861)
  • Euchondrus chondriformis (Mousson, 1861)
  • Helix texta Mousson, 1861
  • Sphincterochila zonata filia (Mousson, 1861)

1863

  • Monacha solidior (Mousson, 1863)
  • Pseudamnicola sphaerion (Mousson, 1863)

1865

  • Diastole schmeltziana (Mousson, 1865)
  • Diastole schmeltziana usurpata (Mousson, 1869)
  • Truncatella rustica Mousson, 1865

1869

  • Melampus semisulcatus Mousson, 1869
  • Pedinogyra minor (Mousson, 1869)
  • Pythia savaiensis (Mousson, 1869)
  • genus Trochonanina Mousson, 1869

1870

1872

1873

1874

  • Bithynia ejecta Mousson, 1874
  • Euchondrus borealis (Mousson, 1874)
  • Gyraulus euphraticus (Mousson, 1874)
  • Monacha merssinae (Mousson, 1874)
  • Neritina euphratica Mousson, 1874
  • Neritina schlaeflii Mousson, 1874
  • Orculella mesopotamica (Mousson, 1874)
  • Planorbis intermixtus Mousson, 1874
  • Pseudochondrula arctespira (Mousson, 1874)
  • Radix hordeum (Mousson, 1874)
  • Xeropicta mesopotamica (Mousson, 1874)

1876

  • Ljudmilena tricollis (Mousson, 1876)

1887

year ?

  • Pupilla signata (Mousson)

Bivalves

1854

  • Cyrena crassula Mousson, 1854[5] (no current allocation known)

1874

  • Cyrena tigridis Mousson, 1874[12]
  • Anodonta mesopotamica Mousson, 1874[12]
  • Anodonta schlaeflii Mousson, 1874[12]

References

  1. ↑ (in German) "Albert Mousson (1805–1890)". ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, accessed 31 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (8 March 2012). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed. Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine., 1024 pp. + 76 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  3. ↑ Mousson A. (1847). "Bemerkungen ueber die natuerlichen Verhaeltnisse der Thermen von Aix in Savoien". Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften - Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles 8(2): 1-48, Tab. I-III. Neuchatel. page 47.
  4. ↑ (in German) Mousson A. (1849). Die Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken von Java. Zürich: Friedrich Schulthess, 126 pp + 12 tables. page 116, table XII, figure 5.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Mousson A. (1854). "Coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles, recueillies par M. le Prof. Bellardi dans un voyage en Orient". Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 3(8): 362-402.
  6. 1 2 3 Mousson A. (1854). "Coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles recueillies par M. le Prof. Bellardi dans un voyage en Orient". pp. 1-59, Plate 1. Zürich, Zurcher & Furrer.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (in German) Mousson A. (1856). "Verzeichniss der von Herrn Dr. Schläfli eingekommenen zweiten malacologischen Sendung". Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 1: 395-399.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Mousson A. (1859). "Coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles, recueillies dans l'Orient par M. le Dr. Alex. Schläfli". Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 4: 12-36, 253-297.
  9. ↑ (in French) Mousson A. (1870) "Faune malacologique terrestre et fluviatile des iles Viti, d'après les envois de M. le Dr. Édouard Graeffe". Journal de conchyliologie 18(1870):109-135, part 2: 179-232, Plate VII, figure 10.
  10. ↑ Mousson A. (1873) [September 1872] N. Denkschr. schweiz. Ges. 25: 15.
  11. ↑ Mousson A. (1873). "Coquilles recueillies par M. le Dr Sievers dans la Russie méridionale et asiatique". Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 193-230.
  12. 1 2 3 Mousson A. (1874). "Coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles recueillies par M. le Dr Alex. Schlæfli en Orient". Journal de Conchyliologie (5th series)22: 1-60. Paris.
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