Alycaeidae Explained

Alycaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea.^[1]

Genera

• Alycaeus Gray, 1850
• Chamalycaeus Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
• Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900
• Dioryx Benson, 1859
• Laotia Saurin, 1953
• Messageria Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1904
• Metalycaeus Pilsbry, 1900
• Pincerna Preston, 1907
• Stomacosmethis Bollinger, 1918

Synonyms:

• Alcaeus Gray, 1850: synonym of Alycaeus Gray, 1850 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
• Awalycaeus Kuroda, 1951: synonym of Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900 (junior synonym)

External links

• Blanford, W. T. (1864). On the classification of the Cyclostomacea of eastern Asia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 13(78): 441-465
• Páll-Gergely, B., Sajan, S., Tripathy, B., Meng, K., Asami, T. & Ablett, J.D. (2020). Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalog. ZooKeys. 981: 1–220

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Alycaeidae W. T. Blanford, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=833806 on 2021-04-24