Albert Mousson

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]

Albert Mousson
Albert Mousson
Albert Mousson
Born(1805-03-17)March 17, 1805
Solothurn, Switzerland
DiedNovember 16, 1890(1890-11-16) (aged 85)
Scientific career
Fieldsphysics, malacology

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

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. 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. 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. (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. 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. 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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