Metalycaeus physis (Benson, 1859)

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 physis (Benson, 1859)
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Treatment

Alycaeus physis Benson, 1859: 179.

Alycaeus physis - Reeve 1878: pl. 6, species 51; Godwin-Austen 1914: 342, pl. 134, figs 1, 1a.

Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) physis - Kobelt 1902: 361; Gude 1921: 231-232, fig. 34.

Alycaeus (Orthalycaeus) physis - Rees 1964: 64, pl. 5, fig. 27.

Chamalycaeus (Chamalycaeus) physis - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 55.

Type locality.

"in valle Rungit (alt. 2000 ped.), prope Darjiling".

Material examined.

Sikkim, UMZC I.102735 (1 syntype); Darjeeling, 'Sow M/R 7/3/91, 626', V W. MacAndrew Collection, Acc. no. 1563, NHMUK 20150124 (2 shells); Darjiling, NHMUK 1888.12.4.895-871 (3 shells).

Remarks.

Spire low, but protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 rather irregularly ribbed, with weak spiral lines; R2 long, with waved surface; there are light and dark stripes alternating.

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

Rees, WJ, 1964. A Review of breathing devices in land operculate snails. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 36: 55 - 67

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