Alycaeus

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Alycaeus
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Shell of Alycaeus goliath (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Alycaeidae
Genus: Alycaeus
J. E. Gray, 1850
Type species
Cyclostoma gibbumEydoux, 1838
Synonyms
  • Alcaeus [sic] misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
  • Alycaeus (Alycaeus)Gray, 1850· accepted, alternate representation
  • Alycaeus (Orthalycaeus)L. Pfeiffer, 1876
  • OrthalycaeusL. Pfeiffer, 1876
  • Alycoeus [sic] misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Alycaeus is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Alycaeidae. [1]

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Description

(Original description) The operculum is horny with multiple whorls. The conical shell has a regular spire. The body whorl is distorted and compressed and significantly contracted before the aperture. The aperture is circular, with a regularly reflexed peristome. [2]

The protoconch sculpture is smooth to obliquely striated. The diameter of the shell varies between 8 mm and 15 mm. The central tooth of the radula consists of five broad cusps with the central cusp blunt. [3]

Distribution

There are nine recognized species of Alycaeus in Peninsular Malaysia. [4]

Species

Species within the genus Alycaeus include:

Taxon inquirendum
Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Alycaeus Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996197 on 2020-05-12
  2. ↑ Baird W. (1850). Nomenclature of molluscous animals and shells in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Cyclophoridae. British Museum, London. 69 pp. PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. ↑ Páll-Gergely, B., Sajan, S., Tripathy, B., Meng, K., Asami, T. & Ablett, J.D. (2020). "Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalog". ZooKeys (981): 29. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.981.53583 . PMC   7644702 . PMID   33199958.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) source-attribution)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Foon, Junn Kitt; Liew, Thor-Seng (2017-08-21). "A review of the land snail genus Alycaeus (Gastropoda, Alycaeidae) in Peninsular Malaysia". ZooKeys (692): 1–81. Bibcode:2017ZooK..692....1F. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.692.14706 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   5672734 . PMID   29133987 . Retrieved 2017-11-02.



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