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

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### Gastropods

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Taxa described by Albert Mousson include (sorted chronologically):

1847

* Cochlostoma apricum (Mousson, 1847)[3]

1848

* Amphidromus palaceus (Mousson, 1848)
* Amphidromus porcellanus (Mousson, 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

* Omphalotropis costulata (Mousson, 1870)[9]

1872

* Acanthinula spinifera Mousson, 1872
* Hemicycla inutilis Mousson, 1872
* subgenus Nautilinus Mousson, 1872[10]
* Theba grasseti (Mousson, 1872)
* Xerotricha adoptata (Mousson, 1872)
* Xerotricha nodosostriata (Mousson, 1872)

1873

* Omphalotropis albocarinata Mousson, 1873
* Plekocheilus ampullaroides (Mousson, 1873)
* Plekocheilus subglandiformis (Mousson, 1873)
* Rhodea gigantea Mousson, 1873
* genus Serrulina Mousson, 1873[11]

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

* Pila occidentalis (Mousson, 1887)

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* Pupilla signata (Mousson)

### Bivalves

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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

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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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c d e f g (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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w 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. ^ a b c 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.

## External links

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* (in French) Crosse H. & Fischer P. (1891). "Nécrologie". Journal de Conchyliologie 39(1): 66-67.
* Dodge H. (1946). "A letter concerning the cones of Hwass and other collections in Switzerland". The Nautilus 59(3): 97-101.
* Meier T. (1994). "Albert Mousson (1805-1890) und seine Sammlung in Zürich. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 54: 9-10.
* (in German) Schneider G. (1891). "Albert Mousson". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 23(1-2): 1-3.

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