Dicharax (?) montanus (Nevill, 1881)

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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Dicharax (?) montanus (Nevill, 1881) Fig. 23 View Figure 23

Alycaeus montanus Nevill, 1881: 149, pl. 6, fig. 5.

Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) montanus - Kobelt 1902: 359; Gude 1921: 229.

Alycaeus montanus - Godwin-Austen 1914: 341-342, pl. 136, figs 3, 3a.

Chamalycaeus (Chamalycaeus) montanus - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 54.

Type locality.

"Sikkim, at 11,000 ft".

Material examined.

Sikkim, at 11,000 ft, coll. Dr. Stoliczka, NZSI M.8082 (syntype, labelled as holotype).

Remarks.

The original description does not mention the number of available specimens. Thus, the shell labelled as holotype is considered to be a syntype.

Protoconch low, without spiral striation, R1 with low, rather regular ribbing; surface of R2 wavy, ribs are blunt and only slightly elevated from the surface.

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