OVULIDAE J. Fleming, 1822

Coan, Eugene V., Pacaud, Jean-Michel & Kabat, Alan R., 2024, Gérard-Paul Deshayes (1796 - 1875) and his taxa, Geodiversitas 46 (16), pp. 553-930 : 630-631

Family OVULIDAE J. Fleming, 1822

Syninia – Deshayes, 1844-HistNatAnim2: 474. Subsequent incorrect spelling of Simnia Risso, 1826 .

borbonica , Ovula – Deshayes, 1863: 136-137, pl. 13, figs 18-20. — Type locality: La Réunion. — Type age: Recent. — Current status: nomen dubium ( Lorenz & Fehse 2009: 67) .

elegantissima , Pedicularia – Deshayes, 1863: 50-51, pl. 6, figs 23- 26. — Type locality: La Réunion. — Type age: Recent. — Type material: MNHN-IM-2000-3541, 2 syntypes. — Current status: Pedicularia elegantissima Deshayes, 1863 ( Lorenz & Fehse 2009: 138, pls. 195-196).

eugenii , Ovula – Deshayes,1865-DescrCoqFoss: 571, 105, pl. 105, figs 5-6. — Type locality: Chaumont-en-Vexin. — Type age: Eocene (Lutetian). — Current status: Transovula eugenii (Deshayes, 1865) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112; Pacaud 2008: 51).

lamarckii , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1835-DescrCoqFoss: 727, 50, pl. 97, figs 9-10, non J. E. Gray, 1825. — Type localities: Thiverval-Grignon, Valmondois & Tancrou. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). A new species based in part on Cypraea pediculus Linnaeus, 1758 , of Lamarck, 1803. Deshayes species name, being a junior primary homonym, was renamed Cypraea pedicularis Deshayes, 1844 (see below). Pacaud (2020d: pl. 1) chose as lectotype of this species one of Lamarck’s specimens (MNHN.F.A69376); MNHN.F.A80103, A80104, A80105, paralectotypes, from an unknown locality, probably Valmondois or Auvers-sur-Oise.

pedicularis , Cypraea – Deshayes, 1844-HistNatAnim2: 578-579, replacement name for Cypraea lamarckii Deshayes, 1835 , non J. E. Gray, 1825 (see above); 1865-DescrCoqFoss: 566. The type species (OD) of Eotrivia Schilder, 1924 , is Cypraea (Trivia) bouryi Cossmann, 1889 , a junior synonym of Eotrivia pedicularis (Deshayes, 1844) . — Current status: Eotrivia pedicularis (Deshayes, 1844) ( Schilder 1922: 100, 111; Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112; Pacaud 2008: 51; Pacaud 2020d: 14).

rostralina , Ovula – Deshayes,1865-DescrCoqFoss: 572, 105, pl. 105, figs 9-10. — Type locality: Caumont. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Current status: Simnia (Neosimnia) rostralina (Deshayes, 1865) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112) .

tortilis , Ovula – Deshayes, 1844-HistNatAnim: 468, ex Martyn ms. Unavailable, in the synonymy of Ovula angulosa Lamarck, 1822 , a species now in turn placed in the synonymy of the Recent Indo-Pacific Ovula costellata Lamarck, 1810 .

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acuminata , Ovula – Deshayes, 1865-DescrCoqFoss: 570-571, 105, pl. 105, figs 2-4. Made available by Melleville (1843: 119-120 [74, 88], pl. 10, figs 14-15), as Cypraea acuminata . — Type locality: Mons-en-Laonnois. — Type age: Eocene (Ypresian). — Current status: Transovula acuminata (Melleville, 1843) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 112; Pacaud 2008: 51).

tuberculosa , Ovula – Deshayes, 1827-DictClass12: 545. First made available as Ovula tuberculosa Duclos, 1825 ( Pacaud & Canevet 2019: 62, pl. 2, figs 1-3; Pacaud 2020b: 39).