Albert Mousson Explained

Albert Mousson
Birth Date:	17 March 1805
Birth Place:	Solothurn, Switzerland
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

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)

year ?

Pupilla signata (Mousson)

Bivalves

1854

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

1874

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

External links

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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.
Schneider G. (1891). "Albert Mousson". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 23(1-2): 1-3.

Notes and References

"Albert Mousson (1805–1890)". ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, accessed 31 January 2012.
Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (8 March 2012). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed., 1024 pp. + 76 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
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.
Mousson A. (1849). Die Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken von Java. Zürich: Friedrich Schulthess, 126 pp + 12 tables. page 116, table XII, figure 5.
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.
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.
Mousson A. (1856). "Verzeichniss der von Herrn Dr. Schläfli eingekommenen zweiten malacologischen Sendung". Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 1: 395-399.
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.
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.
Mousson A. (1873) [September 1872] N. Denkschr. schweiz. Ges. 25: 15.
Mousson A. (1873). "Coquilles recueillies par M. le Dr Sievers dans la Russie méridionale et asiatique". Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 193-230.
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.