Metalycaeus godwinausteni Pall-Gergely, 2020

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 godwinausteni Pall-Gergely nom. nov.

Alycaeus neglectus Godwin-Austen, 1914: 358, pl. 154, fig. 5. (non Alycaeus neglectus Heude, 1885)

Alycaeus (Dicharax) neglectus - Gude 1921: 261.

Chamalycaeus (Dicharax) neglectus - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 64.

Type locality.

“Torúpútú Peak, Dafla Hills".

Material examined.

Toruputu Peak, Dafla Hills, leg. Godwin-Austen, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2494 (2 syntypes).

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to H. H. Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), who described the majority of the alycaeid species in the Himalaya region.

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 rather glossy, but very fine reticulated (ribs and spiral striation or roughly equal strength); R2 short, with widely spaced, sharp ribs.

Alycaeus neglectus Heude, 1885 belongs to the genus Metalycaeus due to the spirally striated protoconch. This is the case even if it is treated here as a junior synonym of Metalycaeus rathouisianus (Heude, 1882). Thus, A. neglectus Godwin-Austen, 1914 is a primary as well as a secondary junior homonym of Alycaeus neglectus Heude, 1885 and thus, a replacement name ( godwinausteni ) must be given.