Alycaeus

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Alycaeus
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Shell of Alycaeus goliath (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
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Alycaeus

Baird, 1850 [1]
Synonyms
  • Alycaeus (Alycaeus)Gray, 1850· accepted, alternate representation
  • Alycaeus (Orthalycaeus)L. Pfeiffer, 1876
  • OrthalycaeusL. Pfeiffer, 1876

Alycaeus is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. It is the type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae. [2]

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Distribution

There are recognized 23 species of Alycaeus in Peninsular Malaysia. [3]

Species

Species within the genus Alycaeus include:

Synonyms

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References

  1. Baird (1850). Nomenclatura of molluscous animals and shells in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Cyclophoridae (1): page 27.
  2. 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
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 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. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.692.14706 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   5672734 . PMID   29133987 . Retrieved 2017-11-02.