Metalycaeus kengtungensis (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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.981.53583

publication LSID

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scientific name

Metalycaeus kengtungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
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Metalycaeus kengtungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)

Alycaeus kengtungensis Godwin-Austen, 1914: 409, pl. 139, figs 6, 6a.

Alycaeus (Raptomphalus) kengtungensis - Gude 1921: 287.

Type locality.

"Kengtung, Shan Frontier".

Material examined.

Kengtung, Siam Frontier, leg. Woodthorpe, NHMUK 1903.7.1.3037 (holotype [single specimen mentioned in the original description]).

Remarks.

The whole shell is weathered; therefore, the sculpture could only be examined in very small regions of the shell. Protoconch elevated, some slight signs of spiral striation are visible; R1 regularly ribbed, spiral lines are not visible; R2 very long, the ribs are very widely spaced and sharp.