Dicharax conicus (Godwin-Austen, 1871)

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	Dicharax conicus (Godwin-Austen, 1871)
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Alycaeus conicus Godwin-Austen, 1871: 87-88, pl. 3, fig. 1.

Alycaeus conicus - Reeve 1878: pl. 1, species 9; Godwin-Austen 1914: 387-388, pl. 143, figs 4, 4a, 4b; Gude 1921: 208.

Alycaeus (Alycaeus) conicus - Kobelt 1902: 342; Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 47.

Type locality.

"Was abundant on the Limestone Hill east of Kopili river, North Cachar District, and was occasionally also found in other places, but rare".

Material examined.

Samiamri, E of the Kopili R., leg. Godwin-Austen, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2674 (12 syntypes).

Remarks.

Protoconch low, no spiral lines visible; R1 is similar to protoconch by being moderately glossy and sculptureless; R2 short, with regular ribs curved towards the aperture, forming a relatively wide, flat area, when viewed from above.

References

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