Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900

Asami, Takahiro, 2017, Revision of the Alycaeidae of China, Laos and Vietnam (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea) I: The genera Dicharax and Metalycaeus, Zootaxa 4331 (1), pp. 1-124 : 10

Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900

Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900: 186 .

Type species. Alycaeus hebes BENsON, 1857 ( FIGUrE 5 ), by sUbsEqUENT dEsIGNaTION ( GUdE 1921).

Remarks. AT THE mOmENT IT Is NOT pOssIbLE TO GIvE a COmprEHENsIvE dIaGNOsIs. WE CLassIfy spECIEs IN Dicharax THaT pOssEss a LOw prOTOCONCH wITHOUT spIraL sTrIaTION. MOrE INvEsTIGaTION Is NECEssary TO dELImIT Dicharax frOm OTHEr LOw-spIrEd GENEra THaT pOssEss sImILar EmbryONIC wHOrLs (E.G. THE JapaNEsE Sigmacharax KUrOda, 1943, Cipangocharax KUrOda, 1943, Awalycaeus KUrOda, 1951).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Shell (A), Protoconch (B – C) and R 2 ribs (D – E) of Alycaeus hebes Benson, 1857 (type species of Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900). A. Vorder-Indien, Khasi Berge, coll. Möllendorff, SMF 109244. B – E. Khasi Hills, Teria Ghat, leg. Godwin-Austen, NHMUK 1903.07. 0 1.2658 (B – C. Specimen 2, D – E. Specimen 1). All images: B. Páll-Gergely.