CYPRAEIDAE Rafinesque, 1815

Coan, Eugene V., Pacaud, Jean-Michel & Kabat, Alan R., 2024, Gérard-Paul Deshayes (1796 - 1875) and his taxa, Geodiversitas 46 (16), pp. 553-930 : 629-630

Family CYPRAEIDAE Rafinesque, 1815

angystoma , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1835-DescrCoqFoss: 723, 49, pl. 95, figs 39-40; 1844-HistNatAnim2: 576. 1865-DescrCoqFoss: 562. — Type locality: Chaumont-en-Vexin. — Type age: Eocene (Lutetian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 32370, syntype. — Current status: Bernaya angystoma (Deshayes, 1835) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112; Pacaud 2008: 50; Pacaud & Robert 2016: 59, fig. 4).

antiqua , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1858: 554, non Lamarck, 1810, nomen nudum. This is likely the species he later described as Cypraea prisca Deshayes, 1865 (see below).

brochii , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1844-HistNatAnim2: 575-576. — Type localities: Dax, Superga, Turin & Plaisantin. — Type age: Miocene (Burdigalian). — Type material: MCSNM i4647, lectotype; MNHN.F.A71191, paralectotype. New species based on Cypraea annulus Linnaeus , sensu Brocchi, 1814, and sensu Basterot, 1825, non Linnaeus, 1758. Spelling of species name can be corrected to “ brocchii ” because it is internally evident that Deshayes intended to name this species for Brocchi (ICZN Code Art. 32.5; Schilder 1922: 104). — Type species (OD) of Prozonarina Schilder, 1941 . Dolin & Lozouet (2004) asserted that Schilder had misidentified the type species of this genus and “corrected” it to be Cypraea expansa Grateloup, 1946 . However, Pacaud (2019: 130) considered their views to be incorrect and that the type species should stand as Schilder (1941) had it. — Current status: Prozonarina brocchii (Deshayes, 1844) (Pacaud 2019: 130) .

brocchii , Cypraea – see above. exerta , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1835-DescrCoqFoss: 725, 49, pl. 94 bis, figs 35-37;1844-HistNatAnim2: 576-577;1865-DescrCoqFoss: 563. — Type locality: Retheuil. — Type age: Eocene (Ypresian). — Current status: Archicypraea exerta (Deshayes, 1835) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112; Dolin & Pacaud 2009: 281).

interposita , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1865-DescrCoqFoss: 565, 105, pl. 105, figs 13-16. — Type localities: Cuise-la-Motte & Laon. — Type age: Eocene (Ypresian). Cypraedia (Eucypraedia) interposita (Deshayes, 1865) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112) . — Current status: Cypraedia (Protocypraedia) interposita (Deshayes, 1865) ( Dolin & Pacaud 2009: 295, pl. 8, figs 6-9).

levesquei , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1835-DescrCoqFoss: 722-723, 49, pl. 94 bis, figs 33-34; 1844-HistNatAnim2: 577; 1865-DescrCoqFoss: 562. — Type localities: Retheuil & Soissonnais. — Type age: Eocene (Ypresian). — Type material: MNHN.F.B63308, syntype. — Current status: Sphaerocypraea levesquei (Deshayes, 1835) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 113; Pacaud & Robert 2016: 59, fig. 3; Pacaud 2018c: 48, pl. C, figs 4-6).

media , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1835-DescrCoqFoss: 723-724, 49, pl. 95, figs 37-38; 1844-HistNatAnim2: 577-578; 1865-DescrCoqFoss: 561-562, 106, pl. 106, figs 2-3. — Type locality: Valmondois. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 32369, holotype; MNHN.F.A24291, plastotype. — Type species (SD Jousseaume, 1884) of Bernaya Jousseaume, 1884 . — Current status: Bernaya media (Deshayes, 1835) ( Pacaud & Robert 2016: 59, fig. 5; Pacaud 2018a: 53, figs 4-6).

menkeana, Cyprea [sic] – Deshayes, 1863: 139-140, pl. 13, figs 21- 22. — Type locality: La Réunion; Maillard coll. — Type age: Recent. Cate (1967) believed he recognized this species in Mauritius. — Current status: Bistolida owenii [J. E. Gray, in G. B. Sowerby I, 1832] menkeana (Deshayes, 1863) ( Lorenz & Chiapponi 2005: figs 3 [incl. holotype], 5-6, pl. 3).

obesa , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1865-DescrCoqFoss: 561, 105, pl. 105, figs 11-12. — Type locality: Auvers-sur-Oise. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 32824, holotype; MNHN.F.A24290, plastotype. — Current status: Bernaya obesa (Deshayes, 1865) ( Pacaud 2018a: 57, figs 7-8).

prisca , Cypraea – Deshayes,1865-DescrCoqFoss: 563-564, 105, pl. 105, figs 7-8. Not preoccupied by the Cretaceous “ Cypraea prisca ” Brinkhorst, 1861 (Brinkhorst 1861:71-72, pl. 5a2, fig.14a-b), as suggested by Schil- der (1922: 109), because this species was actually described in Oliva , with Brickhorst, and later others, only suggesting that it might instead be a Cypraea . No such reassignment has taken place. — Type locality: Jonchery-sur-Vesle. — Type age: Paleocene (Thanetian). — Current status: Archicypraea prisca (Deshayes, 1865) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112; Dolin & Pacaud 2009: 280; Leroy et al. 2014: 24, pl. 25, figs 5-10).

sophia , Cypraea – Deshayes,1865-DescrCoqFoss: 564, 106, pl. 106, figs 4-5, ex Bernay ms. — Type locality: Chaussy. — Type age: Eocene (Lutetian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 30505, syntype; MNHN.F.A24292, plastotype. — Current status: Eucypraedia sophia (Deshayes, 1865) ( Pacaud 2008: 51, as “Bernay in Deshayes”), now Eucypraedia (Pacaudia) s ophia (Deshayes, 1865) (Pacaud herein).

vittata , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1823-DictClass: pl. [83], fig.1a-b; 1828-DictClass14: 219; 1831-DictClass17: 120. — Type locality: none given. — Type age: Recent. — Current status: synonym of Cypraea ziczac Linnaeus, 1758 ( Wilson 1993: 189, pl. 33, fig. 18).

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bellardii , Ovula – Bellardi, 1852: 217, pl. 3, fig. 1, pl. 4, fig. 1, ex Deshayes ms. In spite of the awkwardness of having named a species for himself, there is no indication in the introduction or with this description that Deshayes had any role in preparing and publishing it, other than perhaps to have suggested the name (ICZN Code Art. 50.1.1). Indeed, two years before this publication, Bellardi (1850: 682) had listed it as a nomen nudum and as “Desh., mss” and as “ bellardi ”.). MHN Nice PAL55877, holotype – Resin copy: MNHN.F.R64601.— Current status: Vicetia bellardii ( Bellardi, 1852) (Pacaud 2019: 128- 129, pl. 3, fig. 1, pl. 4, figs 1-2, as “Deshayes in Bellardi”).