Metalycaeus burtii (Godwin-Austen, 1874)

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 burtii (Godwin-Austen, 1874)
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Treatment

Alycaeus Burtii Godwin-Austen, 1874: 149-150, pl. 3, fig. 9.

Alycaeus burtii - Reeve 1878: pl. 3, species 27; Godwin-Austen 1914: 352-353, pl. 144, figs 8, 8a.

Alycaeus (Alycaeus) burti [sic] - Kobelt 1902: 342; Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 47; Tripathy et al. 2018: 789.

Alycaeus burti [sic] - Gude 1921: 206-207.

Type locality.

"Foot of the Bhutan Himalaya at the debouchement of the Barowli River, Assam".

Material examined.

Barowli Gorge, Tezpur Dist., Assam, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2492 (holotype [single specimen mentioned in the original description]).

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 irregularly ribbed, spirally striated; R2 relatively short, with sharp, straight, widely spaced ribs.

The original and correct spelling is burtii , and burti is an unjustified emendation.

Gude, GK, 1921. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Mollusca. III. Land operculates (Cyclophoridae, Truncatellidae, Assimineidae, Helicinidae). Taylor and Francis, London, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12890

Kobelt, W, 1902. Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. In Verbindung mit der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft herausgegeben von der Koeniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Mollusca: Cyclophoridae. R. Friedlaender und Sohn, Berlin, https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1000211

Reeve, LA, 1878. Monograph of the genus Alycaeus. In: Reeve LA (Ed.) Conchologica Iconica: or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. Reeve and Co., London, 20: 13 pp. [+ 6 pls] https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8230573