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Family Vulsellidae. 

 Genus Vulsella Rôding. 



1798. Vulsella Rôding, Mus. Boltenianum, p. 156. 



1799. Vulsella Lamarck, Mém. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, p. 82. 

 1840. Reniella Swainson, Treat. Malacol., p. 386. 



1847. Baphta Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 199. 



1857. Vulsella Adams, H. & A., Gen. Rec. Moll., p. 523 (as a genus of Humphrey). 



1858. Vulsella Reeve, Conch. Icon., XI, Vulsella pi. i (explanation). 

 1886. Vulsella Fischer, P., Man. Conchyliol., p. 955. 



1886. Vulsella Cooke, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XVII, pp. 59—67. 



1890. Vulsella Clessin in Martini-Chemn. Conch. -Cab. (N. F.), VIII (i), Malleacea, p. 16. 



191 1. Vulsella Smith, Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, pp. 306 — 312, pi. XI. 



The genus Vulsella has been ascribed to Lamarck by several authors, but Lamarck's 

 usage of this name was anticipated by Roding a year earlier. Iredale ^) has proposed to reject 

 the name Vulsella in view of its having been used "in a différent sensé" by Humphrey in the 

 "Muséum Calonnianum", but in view of the décision of the International Commission of Zoological 

 Nomenclature -) Humphrey's names in the work under question do not effect the status of any 

 gênera proposed by other workers. 



Good définitions of the genus were published by Fischer and Clessin. The type species 

 of the genus is Vulsella major Rôding =^ Vulsella vulsella (Linn.). 



I. Vulsella vulsella (Linn.). 



1758. Mya vulsella Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (éd. X), p. 671. 



1767. Mya vulsella Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (éd. XII), p. 11 13. 



1790. Alya vulsella Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (éd. XIII). VI, p. 3219. 



1798. Vulsella major Roding, Mus. Boltenianum, p. 156. 



18 19. Vulsella lingulata, V. hians and V. mytilina Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., VI, pp. 221, 268. 

 1827. Bruguière, Encyclopéd. Méthod., pi. CLXXVIII, fig. 4. 



1836. Vulsella lingulata, V. hians and V. mytilina Deshayes in Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb. 

 VII, p. 267, 268. 



1857. Vulsella lingulata and V. mytilina Adams, H. & A., Gen. Rec. Moll., II, p. 524, pi. CXXII, 



figs. 4, à,a. 



1858. Vulsella lingulata, V. mytilina and V. trita Reeve, Conch. Icon., XI, Vulsella, pi. I, 



figs. 6, 4, pi. II, fig. 17. 

 1875. Vulsella lingulata Dunker, Jahrb. Deutsch. Malakozool. Ges., II, p. 2. 

 1880. Valsella (sic) lingulata von Martens, Môbius Beitràg. Meeresf. Mauritius, Seychell., p. 317. 



1884. Vulsella vulsella de Gregorio, Bull. Soc. Malacol. Ital., X, p. ^Ç>, pi. V, figs. i — \c. 



1885. Vulsella mytilina and V. lingulata Cooke, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XVII, p. 62. 

 1890. Vulsella lingulata, V. mytilina and V. trita Clessin in Martini-Chemn. Conch. -Cab. (N. F.), 



VIII (3), Malleacea^ pp. 17, 22, 25, pi. V, fig. 4, pi. VI, fig. 6, pi. VII, fig. 7. 

 1904. Vulsella lingulata Hidalgo, Cat. Filip., p. 368. 

 I9EI. Vulsella vulsella Smith, Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, V, p. 307, pi. XI, figs, i — 3. 



1912. Vulsella vulsella Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, XXXVI, p. 205. 

 1916. Vulsella vulsella Hedley, Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. W. Australia, I, p. 156. 



i) Iredale, T. — Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, XLIX, p. 191 (1924). 

 2) Zoological Nomenclature Opinion N" 51. 



