Metalycaeus latecostatus ( Moellendorff , 1882)

Pall-Gergely, Barna, Sajan, Sheikh, Tripathy, Basudev, Meng, Kaibaryer, Asami, Takahiro & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2020, Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue, ZooKeys 981, pp. 1-220 : 1

Metalycaeus latecostatus ( Moellendorff, 1882)

Alycaeus latecostatus - Möllendorff, 1882: 346, pl. 10, fig. 7.

Alycaeus (Orthalycaeus) latecostatus - Möllendorff 1886: 171.

Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) latecostatus - Kobelt and Möllendorff 1897: 148; Kobelt 1902: 358.

Chamalycaeus latecostatus - Yen 1939: 29-30, pl. 2, fig. 34.

Chamalycaeus (Chamalycaeus) latecostatus - Zilch 1957: 143, pl. 5, fig. 11.

Metalycaeus latecostatus - Páll-Gergely et al. 2017: 88, fig. 47B.

Type locality.

"Bei Lien-tschou auf Tropfsteinfelsen".

Material examined.

China: Lo-fou-schan (Kwangtung), leg. Möllendorff, coll. Kobelt, SMF 39215 (lectotype, designated by Yen 1939); Same data, SMF 39299 (2 paralectotypes); Same data, SMF 39216 (8 shells).

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 with very strong ribs with very weak spiral lines between them; R2 short, with widely spaced, sharp ribs, which are usually slightly bent in the direction of their anterior neighbours.