Metalycaeus (?) aborensis (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

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scientific name	Metalycaeus (?) aborensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
status

Treatment

Alycaeus aborensis Godwin-Austen, 1914: 364, pl. 149, fig. 9.

Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) aborensis - Gude 1921: 223.

Chamalycaeus (Chamalycaeus) aborensis - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 52; Tripathy et al. 2018: 789.

Type locality.

"Bapu Peak, Abor Hills".

Material examined.

Abor Hills, leg. Oakes, NHMUK 1903.7.1.3.102 (5 syntypes, one of them separated with pink wool).

Remarks.

Protoconch relatively low and spirally striated; R1 with rather regular, strong ribs and weaker spiral striation; R2 very long, there are no visible ribs which would elevate from the surface of the shell, alternate thicker/darker and slimmer/lighter lines, where the lighter ones represent microtunnels.