Metalycaeus Explained

Metalycaeus is a genus of tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Alycaeidae. ^[1]

Species

• Metalycaeus aborensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus anas Páll-Gergely & A. Reischütz, 2021
• Metalycaeus aries Páll-Gergely & Auffenberg, 2021
• Metalycaeus awalycaeoides Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2017
• Metalycaeus beddomei (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus bhutanensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus bicarinatus Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2021
• Metalycaeus brahma (Godwin-Austen, 1886)
• Metalycaeus burtii (Godwin-Austen, 1874)
• Metalycaeus caroli (O. Semper, 1862)
• Metalycaeus crenulatus (Benson, 1859)
• Metalycaeus cyphogyrus (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
• Metalycaeus dikrangensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus distinctus (Godwin-Austen, 1893)
• Metalycaeus godwinausteni Páll-Gergely, 2020
• Metalycaeus heudei (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
• Metalycaeus hirasei (Pilsbry, 1900)
• Metalycaeus hungerfordianus (G. Nevill, 1881)
• Metalycaeus ibex Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2017
• Metalycaeus inflatus (Godwin-Austen, 1874)
• Metalycaeus kamakiaensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus laevis (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
• Metalycaeus laosensis Páll-Gergely, 2017
• Metalycaeus latecostatus (Möllendorff, 1882)
• Metalycaeus libonensis (D.-N. Chen, D.-H. Li & T.-C. Luo, 2003)
• Metalycaeus lohitensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus luyorensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus macgregori (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus magnificus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus minatoi Páll-Gergely, 2017
• Metalycaeus muciferus (Heude, 1885)
• Metalycaeus mundulus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus nipponensis (Reinhardt, 1877)
• Metalycaeus oakesi (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus oharai Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2017
• Metalycaeus okuboi Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2017
• Metalycaeus panggianus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus physis (Benson, 1859)
• Metalycaeus polygonoma (W. T. Blanford, 1862)
• Metalycaeus prosectus (Benson, 1857)
• Metalycaeus pygmachos Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2021
• Metalycaeus quadrasi (Möllendorff, 1895)
• Metalycaeus rathouisianus (Heude, 1882)
• Metalycaeus rotundatus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus rubinus (Godwin-Austen, 1893)
• Metalycaeus rugosus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus satsumanus (Pilsbry, 1902)
• Metalycaeus semperi Páll-Gergely & Auffenberg, 2019
• Metalycaeus sibbumensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus sinensis (Heude, 1882)
• Metalycaeus stylifer (Benson, 1857)
• Metalycaeus subinflatus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus suhajdai Páll-Gergely, 2020
• Metalycaeus teriaensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus tomotrema (Möllendorff, 1887)
• Metalycaeus toruputuensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus varius (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1905)
• Metalycaeus vesica (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus vinctus (Pilsbry, 1902)
• Metalycaeus yamneyensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Metalycaeus zayuensis (W.-H. Zhang, W.-H. Chen & W.-H. Zhou, 2008)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Metalycaeus elevatus (Heude, 1886): synonym of Dicharax elevatus (Heude, 1886) (unaccepted combination)
• Metalycaeus kengtungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914): synonym of Metalycaeus heudei (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900) (junior synonym)

External links

• Pilsbry, H. A. (1900). Notices of new Japanese land snails. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 52: 381-384.
• Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.
• 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. Metalycaeus Pilsbry, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1039788 on 2021-07-14