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.

Gastropods

Taxa described by Albert Mousson include (sorted chronologically):

1847

• Cochlostoma apricum (Mousson, 1847)

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)

1854

• Albinaria virgo (Mousson, 1854)
• Assyriella bellardii (Mousson, 1854)
• Caucasotachea nordmanni (Mousson, 1854)
• Chondrus limbodentatus var. abbreviatus Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Chondrus truquii Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Euchondrus limbodentatus (Mousson, 1854)
• Helix nucula Mousson, 1854
• Helix nicosiana var. pallida Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Helix pomacella Mousson, 1854
• Levantina caesareana (Mousson, 1854)
• Melanopsis brevis Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Metafruticicola nicosiana (Mousson, 1854)
• Neritina bellardii Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Orculella sirianocoriensis (Mousson, 1854)
• Paludina badiella Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Pupa lindermeyeri Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Truncatella hammerschmidtiana Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Helicigona hymetti (Mousson, 1854)
• Helix olivieri var. dilucida Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Helix meridionalis Mousson, 1854 (no current allocation known)
• Asperitas sparsa Mousson, 1854
• Cernuella jonica (Mousson, 1854)

1856

• Clausilia firmata Mousson, 1856 (no current allocation known)
• Clausilia multilamellata Mousson, 1856 (no current allocation known)
• Clausilia unilamellata Mousson, 1856 (no current allocation known)
• Helix squamulosa Mousson, 1856 (no current allocation known)
• Pilorcula trifilaris (Mousson, 1856)
• Pontophaedusa funiculum (Mousson, 1856)
• Pupa schlaeflii Mousson, 1856 (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)
• Bulimus subtilis var. corcyrensis Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Bulimus tumidus Mousson, 1859
• Clausilia auriformis Mousson, 1859
• Helicigona subzonata (Mousson, 1859)
• Helix ambigua Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Helix ambigua var. borealis Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Helix corcyrensis var. cefalonica Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Helix sericea var. epirotica Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Helix corcyrensis var. octogyrata Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Helix schlaeflii Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Mastus grandis (Mousson, 1859)
• Monacha frequens (Mousson, 1859)
• Montenegrina janinensis Mousson, 1859
• Montenegrina rugilabris (Mousson, 1859)
• Napaeopsis cefalonica (Mousson, 1859)
• Isabellaria vallata (Mousson, 1859)
• Planorbis janinensis Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Poiretia compressa (Mousson, 1859)
• Pupa philippii var. exigua Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Pupa minutissima var. obscura Mousson, 1859 (no current allocation known)
• Viviparus janinensis (Mousson, 1859)
• Xeromunda vulgarissima (Mousson, 1859)

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)

1872

• Acanthinula spinifera Mousson, 1872
• Hemicycla inutilis Mousson, 1872
• subgenus Nautilinus Mousson, 1872
• 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

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 (no current allocation known)

1874

• Cyrena tigridis Mousson, 1874
• Anodonta mesopotamica Mousson, 1874
• Anodonta schlaeflii Mousson, 1874

• 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.
• (German) 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.
• ^ (German) 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.
• (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.
• 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.