Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus, 1758) 1758 Murex trapezium Linnaeus: 755, sp. no. 493 1816 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 7, pl. 431, figs. 3a, b 1822 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 119, sp. no. 3 1830 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus)) Deshayes: 125 1840b Kiener: 8, pl. 6 Locality of Lamarck’s material: l’Océan des grandes Indes. Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51694 (ex MHNG 1097/96), 95.5 mm. 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51698 (ex MHNG 1097/100), 18 cm, bearing a faded handwritten label inside the aperture of the shell, Fasc. Trapezium, written by Lamarck. Locality on label of specimen 51694: Océan Indien. Label of specimen 51698 missing. Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, two specimens were in her father’s collection. Neither of these specimens seems to match Lamarck’s or Kiener’s figures. Current taxonomic position: Pleuroploca trapezium (Linnaeus, 1758); type species of Pleuroploca Fischer, 1884 [Fasciolariidae]. Locality is Indo – Pacific.

Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682