Dioryx pilula (Gould, 1859)

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

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scientific name

Dioryx pilula (Gould, 1859)
status

 

Dioryx pilula (Gould, 1859)

Alycaeus pilula Gould, 1859: 424-425.

Dioryx pilula and pilula var. minor - Kobelt and Möllendorff 1897: 147.

Alycaeus (Dioryx) pilula - Bavay and Dautzenberg 1900b: 456-457.

Dioryx pilula - Kobelt 1902: 339; Yen 1939: 28, pl. 2, fig. 29; Zilch 1957: 141; Varga 1972: 136, figs 19, 20; Páll-Gergely et al. 2017: 10.

Alcaeus [sic] pilula Johnson 1964: 127.

Type locality.

"Hong Kong, China".

Material examined.

Hong Kong, ex coll. Möllendorff, ex coll. Mus. Heude, MCZ 167223 (1 shell).

Remarks.

Protoconch extremely finely granulated, rather matte; R1 with irregular growth ridges and very fine spiral striation; R2 relatively short, with extremely fine alternating wider/darker and slimmer/lighter stripes.

Johnson (1964) did not find the type lot in the Smithsonian Museum. The sample we examined was collected at the type locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Gastropoda

Family

Cyclophoridae

Genus

Dioryx

Loc

Dioryx pilula (Gould, 1859)

Pall-Gergely, Barna, Sajan, Sheikh, Tripathy, Basudev, Meng, Kaibaryer, Asami, Takahiro & Ablett, Jonathan D. 2020
2020
Loc

Alycaeus pilula

Gould 1859
1859
Loc

Alycaeus (Dioryx) pilula

Gould 1859
1859
Loc

Alcaeus

Dallas 1851
1851