Metalycaeus (?) toruputuensis (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 (?) toruputuensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
status

 

Metalycaeus (?) toruputuensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914) Fig. 38 View Figure 38

Alycaeus Theobaldi - Godwin-Austen, 1876: 175-176, pl. 7, fig. 10. (operculum).

Alycaeus theobaldi - Nevill 1878: 290.

Alycaeus toruputuensis Godwin-Austen 1914: 359-360, pl. 149, figs 3, 3a, b, pl. 145, fig. 10 (operculum).

Alycaeus (Dicharax) toruputuensis - Gude 1921: 274.

Chamalycaeus (Dicharax) toruputuensis - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 68.

Type locality.

"on the slopes of Torúpútú peak in the Dafla Hills" (in Godwin-Austen 1914).

Material examined.

Slope of Toruputu peak, Dafla Hills, Assam, coll. Godwin-Austen, NZSI M.8037 (holotype, "the specimen figured is the type shell", "type in Indian Museum, Calcutta": Godwin-Austen 1914: 360); Toruputu Peak, Dafla Hills, leg. Godwin-Austen, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2496 (6 paratypes in two different vials, one shell is indicated with pink wool).

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 with rather regular, strong ribs and much weaker spiral lines; R2 smooth, somewhat wavy, with thick darker and slimmer lighter stripes alternating.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Architaenioglossa

SuperFamily

Cyclophoroidea

Family

Cyclophoridae

Genus

Metalycaeus

Loc

Metalycaeus (?) toruputuensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)

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

Alycaeus toruputuensis

Godwin-Austen 1914
1914
Loc

Alycaeus (Dicharax) toruputuensis

Godwin-Austen 1914
1914
Loc

Alycaeus Theobaldi

W.T.Blanford 1862
1862
Loc

Alycaeus theobaldi

W.T.Blanford 1862
1862