Metalycaeus yamneyensis (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

Metalycaeus yamneyensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)

Alycaeus yamnayensis (in the headings) and A. yamneyensis (in the text) Godwin-Austen, 1914: 368, pl. 156, fig. 2.

Alycaeus yamneyensis - Gude 1921: 222-223.

Alycaeus (Alycaeus) yamneyensis - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 51; Tripathy et al. 2018: 789.

Type locality.

"Yamne Valley, Abor Hills".

Material examined.

Yamney valley, Abor Hills, NHMUK 1903.7.1.3114 (3 shells, one of them separated with pink wool).

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 rather regularly ribbed and some spiral striation visible; R2 extremely long, with widely spaced, sharp ribs.

This species was spelled both " yamnayensis " and " yamneyensis " in the original description. The former is considered an incorrect original spelling, because the name is derived from the Yamne Valley.