Metalycaeus caroli (Semper, 1862)

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 caroli (Semper, 1862)
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Treatment

Alycaeus caroli Semper, 1862: 148-149.

Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) caroli - Kobelt 1902: 353-354.

Chamalycaeus (Chamalycaeus) caroli - Zilch 1957: 142, pl. 5, fig. 4.

Metalycaeus caroli - Páll-Gergely and Auffenberg 2019: 384, fig. 7A, B.

Type locality.

"ad Digallorin vicum insulæ Luzon".

Material examined.

Philippines (N-Luzon), 'ad Digallorin vicum insulæ Luzon’ (Digollorin Bay: 16°50'N, 122°26'E), coll. C. Semper, 18 August 1860, SMF 158415 (2 syntypes); Luzon, Philippines, V W. MacAndrew Collection, Acc. no. 1563, NHMUK 20150120 (2 shells).

Remarks.

Protoconch elevated, spirally striated; R1 with irregular ribs and spiral striae of ca. the same strength, or slightly even stronger than the ribs; R2 relatively short, with alternating darker/wider and slimmer/lighter stripes; its surface is nearly smooth.

References

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

Pall-Gergely, B, Auffenberg, K, 2019. A review of the Alycaeidae of the Philippines with descriptions of new species and subspecies (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea). Molluscan Research 39 (4): 377 - 389, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2019.1638541

Zilch, A, 1957. Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 20: Mollusca, Cyclophoridae, Alycaeinae. Archiv fuer Molluskenkunde 86(4/6): 141-150.