Metalycaeus lohitensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)

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

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scientific name	Metalycaeus lohitensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
status

Treatment

Alycaeus lohitensis Godwin-Austen, 1914: 362-363, pl. 137, figs 1, 1a.

Alycaeus lohitensis - Gude 1921: 210.

Alycaeus (Alycaeus) lohitensis - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 48; Tripathy et al. 2018: 789.

Type locality.

"Brahmakund, Eastern Assam".

Material examined.

Brahmakund, Eastern Assam, leg. Ogle, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2493 (19 syntypes); Brahmakund, E. R. Sykes Collection, Acc. no. 1825, NHMUK 20150125 (1 shell) (matches the description and the figure in the orig. description).

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 with rather regular, widely spaced ribs with somewhat weaker spiral striae between the ribs; R2 long, with sharp, widely spaced ribs.

References

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Architaenioglossa
SuperFamily	Cyclophoroidea
Family	Cyclophoridae
Genus	Metalycaeus