Metalycaeus prosectus (Benson, 1857)

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 prosectus (Benson, 1857)
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Alycaeus prosectus Benson, 1857: 203-204.

Alycaeus prosectus - Reeve 1878: pl. 6, species 49; Godwin-Austen 1914: 380-381, pl. 143, figs 1, 1a, 1b.

Alycaeus (Dicharax) prosectus - Kobelt 1902: 375-376; Gude 1921: 266-267.

Chamalycaeus (Dicharax) prosectus - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 65.

Type locality.

"ad Teria Ghát”.

Material examined.

Khasi Hills, NHMUK 1906.4.4.63 (5 shells); UMZC I.102775 (4 syntypes); NHMUK 1888.12.4.873-875 (3 shells).

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 with irregular, low ribs and spiral striae of the same strength; R2 relatively long, with sharp, relatively widely spaced, straight ribs.

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