Cerithium giganteum, Lam. - Pusch, 1837

giganteum . Cerithium . Andrzejowski, 1833 [non Lamarck, 1804]

= Campanile giganteum ( Lamarck, 1804) View in CoL

* Cerithium giganteum — Andrzejowski, 1833: 442, pl. 13, fig. 6.

Cerithium giganteum Lam.— Pusch 1837: 149 .

Cerith [ium]. giganteum Lam. var.— Eichwald 1853: 145.

Discussion. Andrzejowski (1833) indicated that this species was described by him (“ nobis ”), although the name Cerithium giganteum was already established for the very same species by Lamarck (1804: 439). Thus, Cerithium giganteum Andrzejowski, 1833 is a primary homonym and a subjective synonym of Cerithium giganteum Lamarck, 1804 . In contrast to the statements by Andrzejowski (1833), Pusch (1837) and Eichwald (1853), the single available specimen was surely not found in Miocene strata of Varivtsi (Khmel’nytskyi Region, Ukraine) but was obviously derived from the Eocene of the Paris Basin. Such misplacements were not unusual at that time as documented by the description of a recent Tridacna from the Miocene of the Carpathian Foredeep by Pusch (1837) (see Harzhauser et al. 2008).