Alycaeus
Shell of Alycaeus goliath (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Cyclophoroidea
Family:
Cyclophoridae
Subfamily:
Alycaeinae
Genus:
Alycaeus

Baird, 1850[1]
Synonyms
  • Alycaeus (Alycaeus) Gray, 1850· accepted, alternate representation
  • Alycaeus (Orthalycaeus) L. Pfeiffer, 1876
  • Orthalycaeus L. Pfeiffer, 1876

Alycaeus is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. It is the type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae.[2]

Distribution

There are recognized 23 species of Alycaeus in Peninsular Malaysia.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Alycaeus include:

  • Alycaeus altis[3]
    • Alycaeus altis pirus Möllendorff, 1902[3]
  • Alycaeus conformis Fulton, 1902[3]
  • Alycaeus eydouxi Venmans, 1956
  • Alycaeus gibbosulus Stoliczka, 1872[3]
  • Alycaeus goliath Páll-Gergely, 2023
  • Alycaeus jousseaumei Morgan, 1885[3]
  • Alycaeus pyramidalis W. H. Benson, 1856
  • Alycaeus rolfbrandti Maassen, 2006
  • Alycaeus somwangi Dumrongrojwattana & Maassen, 2008
Synonyms
  • Alycaeus alticola Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis alticola (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017) (basionym)
  • Alycaeus balingensis Tomlin, 1948:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis balingensis (Tomlin, 1948) (basionym)
  • Alycaeus carinata Maassen, 2006:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis carinatus (Maassen, 2006) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
  • Alycaeus charasensis Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis charasensis (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017) (basionym)
  • Alycaeus clementsi Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kelantanensis clementsi (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017) (basionym)
  • Alycaeus costacrassa Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis costacrassa (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017) (basionym)
  • Alycaeus expansus Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kelantanensis expansus (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017) (basionym)
  • Alycaeus galbanus Godwin-Austen, 1889: synonym of Stomacosmethis galbanus (Godwin-Austen, 1889) (original combination)
  • Alycaeus globosus Adams, 1870: synonym of Pincerna globosus (H. Adams, 1871)
  • Alycaeus hosei Godwin-Austen, 1889: synonym of Stomacosmethis hosei (Godwin-Austen, 1889)
  • [lycaeus ikanensis Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis ikanensis (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017)
  • Alycaeus kapayanensis Morgan, 1885:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis (de Morgan, 1885)
  • Alycaeus kelantanensis Sykes, 1902:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kelantanensis (Sykes, 1902)
  • Alycaeus kurauensis Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis kurauensis (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017)
  • Alycaeus liratulus Preston, 1907:[3] synonym of Pincerna liratulus (Preston, 1907)
  • Alycaeus perakensis Crosse, 1879:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis perakensis (Crosse, 1879)
  • Alycaeus regalis Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis regalis (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017)
  • Alycaues roebeleni Möllendorff, 1894:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis roebeleni (Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Alycaeus selangoriensis Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis selangoriensis (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017)
  • Alycaeus senyumensis Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis senyumensis (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017)
  • Alycaeus thieroti Morgan, 1885:[3] synonym of Pincerna thieroti (de Morgan, 1885)
  • Alycaeus virgogravida Foon & Liew, 2017:[3] synonym of Stomacosmethis kapayanensis virgogravida (Foon & T.-S. Liew, 2017)

References

  1. ↑ Baird (1850). Nomenclatura of molluscous animals and shells in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Cyclophoridae (1): page 27.
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Alycaeus Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996197 on 2020-05-12
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Foon, Junn Kitt; Liew, Thor-Seng (2017-08-21). "A review of the land snail genus Alycaeus (Gastropoda, Alycaeidae) in Peninsular Malaysia". ZooKeys (692): 1–81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.692.14706. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5672734. PMID 29133987. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
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