Alycaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea.[1]
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| Shell of Laotia pahiensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Alycaeidae W. T. Blanford, 1864 |
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Alycaeinae W. T. Blanford, 1864 (unaccepted rank) | |
Genera
edit- Alycaeus Gray, 1850
- Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965
- Chamalycaeus Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
- Cycloryx Godwin-Austen, 1914
- 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)
- Cipangocharax Kuroda, 1943: synonym of Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900 (junior synonym)
References
edit- ^ 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
External links
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- 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
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