Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pectinidae) in the German, French, and Dutch Editions of Georg Wolfgang Knorr’S “Vergnügen” (1757-1775)
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Contents Basteria Basteria volume 74(1-3): 1-72 Journal of the Netherlands Malacological Society Editorial ................................................................................................................................. 1 Dijkstra, H.H. Annotations to the described and figured scallops (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pectinidae) in the German, French, and Dutch editions of Georg Wolfgang Knorr’s “Vergnügen” (1757-1775) ............................ 3 Guidelines to authors .......................................................................................................... 21 Breure, A.S.H., Groenenberg, D.S.J. & Schilthuizen, M . New insights in the phylogenetic relations within the Orthalicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) based on 28S sequence data ..................................................... 25 Breure, A.S.H. Book review ................................................................................................... 32 Dijkstra, H.H . A collation of the three editions of Georg Wolfgang Knorr’s conchological work “Vergnügen” (1757-1775) ........................................................ 33 Heij, A. de & Goud, J . Sepiola tridens spec. nov., an overlooked species (Cephalopoda, Sepiolidae) living in the North Sea and north-eastern Atlantic Ocean ..................................................................................... 51 Hoeksema, D.F. & Janse, A.C . An extension of the geographical and stratigraphical distribution of the European marine bivalve Montacuta goudi Van Aartsen, 1997 (Bivalvia, Galeommatoidea, Montacutidae) .............................................................................................................. 63 Neubert, E. Book review ........................................................................................................ 68 Bennema, F.P. Job Baster’s description of nudibranch veliger larvae (1759) ................ 69 Date of publication: 15-VII-2010 Volume 74 (1-3) Editorial board Prof. Dr E. Gittenberger (editor-in-chief), Dr B. Kokshoorn (layout editor), G.C. Kronenberg (editor). Associated editors Dr A.C. van Bruggen (non-marine molluscs), Dr Th.C.M. Kemperman (terrestrial and marine molluscs), Prof. Dr G. van der Velde (freshwater molluscs), Prof. Dr G. Vermeij (fossil and recent marine molluscs), Dr F. Wesselingh (fossil molluscs). Editorial address Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis Darwinweg 2, P.O. 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Dijkstra Zoological Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61, NL-1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands; [email protected] nominal (Regenfuss, 1758; Schröter, 1783-1786; Born, 1780; This paper deals with the described and figured Pectinidae Poli, 1791-1795) and were accepted as such by the ICZN of the three editions of Knorr’s “Vergnügen”. Plates are com - (1999). Unfortunately the names in Knorr are rejected by the pared and treated taxonomically. Three new junior syn - ICZN, as his work is not entirely binominal. Some binomi - 3 onyms are recognized and ten figures are type figures of nal works on molluscs were not illustrated in that century, nominal taxa. especially Linnaeus (1758, 1767), Born (1778), Gmelin (1791), and Röding (1798). These authors named species with refer - Key words: Knorr, Vergnügen (1757-1773), Les Delices (1760-1773), ence to figures in non-binominal works such as those men - Verlustiging (1770-1775), Bivalvia, Pectinidae, synonyms, type figures. tioned above, including Knorr. Therefore these old works are still important, not only for comparative historical mala - cological research, but also because they contain figures Introduction which may represent one or more specimens of the type se - ries of a species. Several outstanding malacological works were published in One of Knorr’s highlights are the three editions of the 18th century. Prominent among them are works by Vergnügen der Augen und des Gemüths (1757-1775). It is his Rumphius (1705), Seba (1734-1765), Dezalier d’Argenville work best known to malacologists and a reference to (1742), Gualtieri (1742), Knorr (1757-1773), Martini & Chem - “Knorr” usually needs no further explanation. Herein I will nitz (1769-1795), and Martyn (1784-1787). Their books were pay special attention to the described and figured scallops. illustrated with magnificent aesthetically pleasing hand- coloured engraved plates. In the middle of that century Ca- Georg Wolfgang Knorr rolus Linnaeus (1758) wrote the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae , which has been formally accepted as the starting Georg Wolfgang Knorr was born on December 30 th , 1705, in point for zoological nomenclature. Later on in the 18 th cen - Nuremberg, and died on September 17 th in 1761 in that city. tury only a few works devoted solely to molluscs were bi - He was a child of Georg Jacob Knorr and Magdalena Messerschmidt. He spent his whole life in Nuremberg and (“Sun-dial”) after its variety of colour streaks. Houttuyn (in was initially apprenticed to his father’s trade of wood turn - Knorr’s Dutch edition) attributed figure 1 to the “Konings- ing, but at the age of 18, he learned engraving and became a Mantels” (“King or Royal Scallops”) and figure 2 to “De copperplate engraver for Johann Leonhard Blanc, working Zonnewyzer”. However, in the systematic list of the Dutch under Martin Tyroff on the illustrations for Johann Jacob edition the “Konings Mantel” is similar to Ostrea obliterata Scheuchzer’s “Copper-Bible” Physica sacra (1731-1735), Linnaeus, 1758, a different species from the tropical Indo- through which he became interested in the natural sciences. West Pacific. A nice figure of this species can be found also Through his own studies, Knorr gained a wide base of in Seba (1734–65: pl. 87 fig. 7). Gmelin (1791: 3326, nr. 55) knowledge in art history and the natural sciences. Around correctly referred to the three present figures in Knorr’s 1730 he started a publishing firm, which was continued after “Vergnügen” and also to Knorr’s “Deliciae” (1766, Band 2: his death by his heirs until 1765. During his lifetime from figs 3, 4). 1726 until 1760, he engraved portraits, landscapes, geologi - The adult left valve on plate 15 of Houttuyn’s collection cal formations, and animal studies after Dürer and the Kil - is also a typical P. islandicus . Knorr named it “Bandirte Man - ian family. He was a palaeontologist, as well as a painter, tel”, in the Dutch edition “Gebandeerde Mantel” and in the draftsman, engraver, collector, publisher and art dealer. French “Mantel bandé d’Orange”. It is referred to O. obliter - In the second half of the 18th century Nuremberg overtook ata in the systematic list. Born (1778) introduced a new name Augsburg as the centre of production for fine natural history for Knorr’s figure 1 of plate 15 of part 5, overlooking books in Germany, due to the stimulus of J. Trew, a wealthy Müller’s P. islandicus . Gmelin (1791) correctly determined physician at Nuremberg, who assembled a number of artists this specimen as P. islandicus. The shape, radial sculpture and scientists around him. There, Knorr also published and coloured circular bands of the figured specimens are other scientific works distinguished by their beautiful hand- typical for this species. 4 coloured plates. Knorr’s figured specimens most closely resemble the Ice - land Scallop, Pecten islandicus Müller, 1776, known from the Knorr’s described and figured Pectinidae Arctic and boreal Atlantic. The current name is Chlamys is - landica (Müller, 1776). Pecten islandicus Müller, 1776 (Figs 1, 3, 47) Ostrea maxima Linnaeus, 1758 (Figs 2, 6, 7, 17, 18, 23) Seba, 1734-1765: pl. 87 fig. 7. Knorr, 1757-1773 [German edition]: part 1, 5, pl. 4 fig. 1; 7, pl. 5 fig. 2; Ostrea maxima Linnaeus, 1758: 696, nr. 154; Born, 1778: 81; 1780: 98; part 5, 24, pl. 15 fig. 1. Schröter, 1786: 298; Gmelin, 1791: 3315, nr. 1; Schreibers, 1793: 207; Knorr, 1760-1773