Chamalycaeus reinhardti ( Moerch , 1872)

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

Chamalycaeus reinhardti ( Moerch, 1872)

Alycaeus (Charax) reinhardi (sic) Mörch, 1872a: 22.

Alycaeus (Charax) reinhardi (sic) - Mörch 1872b: 315.

Alycaeus nicobaricus Reeve, 1878: pl. 4, species 29.

Alycaeus reinhardti - Godwin-Austen 1895: 455; Godwin-Austen 1914: 431; Gude 1921: 216-217.

Alycaeus (Alycaeus) reinhardti - Kobelt 1902: 349; Subba Rao and Mitra 1991: 26, pl. 3, fig. 4.; Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 50.

Type locality.

"Bords de la rivière Galathea, sur la terre, sous les feuilles mortes" and "Kar Nicobar".

Material examined.

Great Nicobar, coll. Godwin-Austen, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2711.

Remarks.

Spire elevated, shell slightly wider than high; protoconch elevated, no spiral lines visible; R1 with irregular ribs, and somewhat weaker spiral lines; R2 relatively long, with widely spaced, regular, sharp ribs.

The original spelling of the species was reinhardi , which was corrected to reinhardti by Kobelt (1902). This was a justified emendation under the Article 32.5. of the ICZN Code, because it was obvious that Mörch (1872a) named the new species after the collector Reinhardt.

Godwin-Austen (1895) mentioned that the type of this species is from Great Nicobar Island, and the form from Camorta is named f. minor by Mörch. However, we have not found the publication in which Mörch introduced that name.

Reeve’s A. nicobaricus was not examined by us, but it was considered to be a junior synonym of A. reinhardti by Gude (1921).