Metalycaeus suhajdai Pall-Gergely, 2020

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 suhajdai Pall-Gergely nom. nov.

Alycaeus (Dioryx) varius Godwin-Austen, 1914: 402, pl. 157, figs 7, 7a. (non Alycaeus varius Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1905)

Dioryx varius - Gude 1921: 204; Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 75.

Type locality.

"Lhota Naga Hills".

Material examined.

Lhota Naga, coll. Godwin-Austen, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2574 (1 syntype).

Etymology.

The specific name is dedicated to Szilárd Suhajda, the first Hungarian mountaineer to reach the peak of K2 (formerly known as Mount Godwin-Austen). Godwin-Austen was the first to fix the height and position of that mountain.

Remarks.

Metalycaeus varius (Godwin-Austen, 1914) and Metalycaeus varius (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1905) are primary (and also secondary) homonyms. Therefore, the newer taxon needs a replacement name.

The syntype was strongly weathered, but the following observations could be made: protoconch moderately elevated, and although weathered, clearly spirally striated; R1 with strong, rather irregular ribs and weaker spiral striation; R2 very long, with elevated, sharp ribs near the tube (in other places the ribs are not visible due to corrosion).

The constriction is longer than in usual Dioryx , and the protoconch is spirally striated. Therefore, this species is transferred from Dioryx to Metalycaeus .