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Metalycaeus Pilsbry 1900

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Description

Metalycaeus (?) elevatus (Heude, 1886)

FIGUrE 69I.

Alycaeus elevatus Heude, 1886: 210.

Alycaeus elevatus — Heude, 1890: 129, pl. 36, fig. 19.

Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) elevatus — Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897: 148. Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) elevatus — Kobelt, 1902: 355.

Types. NO TypE spECImENs wErE rEpOrTEd by JOHNsON (1973).

Type locality. "TCHEN-k'EOU".

Original description. "TEsTa dIsCOIdEO-TrOCHOIdEa, LaTE UmbILICaTa, spIra apICULaTa, aNfraCTIbUs qUaTUOr, LENTE aCCrEsCENTIbUs, sUTUra sUbsCaLarI jUNCTIs, ULTImO LONGE CONsTrICTO, TUbO sUTUraLI brEvIssImO sECUNdUm dIamETrUm, sEU sECUNdI aNfraCTIbUs aeqUaNTE; apErTUrE ObLIqUa, pErIsTOmaTE dILaTaTO, rEpaNdO, vIx rEfLExIsCULO.—OpErCULO? – DIam. 5; aLTIT. 4 mILLIm."

Remarks. THIs spECIEs Is CHaraCTErIzEd by aN ELEvaTEd spIrE, sHOrT R2 aNd wIdE apErTUrE. THE drawING aNd THE dEsCrIpTION Of A. elevatus Is sImILar TO Metalycaeus muciferus dUE TO THE sHOrT R2, THE R3 wITHOUT swELLING, aNd THE LaCk Of THE CONsTrICTION bETwEEN R2 aNd R3. THErEfOrE, IT prObabLy bELONGs TO THE GENUs Metalycaeus.

Notes

Published as part of Asami, Takahiro, 2017, Revision of the Alycaeidae of China, Laos and Vietnam (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea) I: The genera Dicharax and Metalycaeus, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 4331 (1) on pages 104-105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4331.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1009725

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pilsbry
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Architaenioglossa
Family
Alycaeidae
Genus
Metalycaeus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Metalycaeus Pilsbry, 1900 sec. Asami, 2017

References

  • Heude, R. P. M. (1886) Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum, in Sinis collectorum. Journal de Conchyliologie, 34, 208 - 215.
  • Heude, R. P. M. (1890) Memoires concernant l'histoire naturelle de l'empire chinois par des peres de la Compagnie de Jesus. Notes sur les Mollusques terrestres de la vallee du Fleuve Bleu. Vol. IV. Mission Catholique, Chang-Hai, 64 pp. [pp. 125 - 188]
  • Kobelt, W. & Mollendorff, O. von (1897) Catalog der gegenvartig lebend bekannten Pneumonopomen. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 29, 73 - 88, 105 - 120, 137 - 152.
  • Kobelt, W. (1902) Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. In Verbindung mit der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft herausgegeben von der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Mollusca: Cyclophoridae. R. Friedlander und Sohn, Berlin, 662 pp.
  • Johnson, R. J. (1973) Heude's Molluscan Types: or, Asian land and fresh water mollusks, mostly from the People's Republic of China, described by P. M. Heude. Special Occasional Publication, Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 111 pp.