Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue
Author
Pall-Gergely, Barna
Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Herman Otto ut 15, Budapest, H- 1022, Hungary
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6167-7221
pallgergely2@gmail.com
Author
Sajan, Sheikh
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 002, Uttarakhand, India
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2785-6824
Author
Tripathy, Basudev
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India
Author
Meng, Kaibaryer
National Zoological Museum of China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Author
Asami, Takahiro
Department of Biology, Shinshu University, Matsumoto 390 - 8621, Japan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5706-0272
Author
Ablett, Jonathan D.
Mollusca Section, Invertebrates Division, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museums, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
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Metalycaeus rathouisianus (Heude, 1882)
Figs 34
, 35
Alycaeus rathouisianus
Heude, 1882: 7, pl. 12, figs 12, 12a.
Alycaeus rathouisianus
-
Moellendorff
1882
: 345.
Alycoeus
[sic]
neglectus
Heude, 1885: 96, pl. 24, fig. 4. syn. nov.
Alycaeus (Orthalycaeus) rathouisianus
-
Moellendorff
1886
: 169.
Alycaeus (Orthalycaeus) neglectus
-
Moellendorff
1886
: 170.
Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) neglectus
-
Kobelt and
Moellendorff
1897
: 149;
Kobelt 1902
: 360.
Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) rathouisianus
-
Kobelt and
Moellendorff
1897
: 149;
Kobelt 1902
: 362.
Alycaeus dolomiticus
Heude, 1890: 130, pl. 38, fig. 1.
Chamalycaeus rathouisianus
-
Yen 1939
: 30, pl. 2, fig. 36.
Chamalycaeus (Chamalycaeus) rathouisianus
-
Zilch 1957
: 145.
Metalycaeus rathouisianus
-
Pall-Gergely
et al. 2017
: 98-103, figs 55A-C, 63A, B, 65A, B.
Dicharax (?) neglectus
-
Pall-Gergely
et al. 2017
: 105-107, fig. 69K.
Type locality.
"E collibus juxta civitatem Song-kiang (松江),
provinciae
Kiang-sou, ad montes districtus Tong-lieou, sed non ubique" (
Alycaeus rathouisianus
); "
ad rupestres colles civitatis
Kien-te
,
provinciae
Ngan-houe
legeram
" (
Alycaeus neglectus
); "Ad calcarios lapides
juxta
civitatem
Tchen-kiang
(
Kiang-sou
)".
Material examined.
China,
Tsing-p'on
, MCZ 167143 (23 syntypes of
A. rathouisianus
); Sung-kiang: China, coll.
Moellendorff
ex coll. Heude, SMF 39243 (5 syntypes of
A. rathouisianus
); same data, 39303 (3 syntypes of
A. rathouisianus
); China, Tchein-kiang (Kiang-sou), MCZ 167209 (29 syntypes of
A. dolomiticus
); HMT-221a (labelled as lectotype of
Alycaeus dolomiticus
, Fig.
34
) deposited in IZCAS: locality information were deleted; HMT-221 (labelled as paralectotype of
Alycaeus dolomiticus
), same data with HMT-221; HMT-220a (1 syntype, labelled as lectotype of
Alycaeus neglectus
, Fig.
35
), deposited in IZCAS: Tong-lieu (Dong-Liu town, Dong-Zhi County, Chi-Zhou City, An-Hui Province, China); Same data, HMT-220 (1 syntype, labelled as paralectotype of
Alycaeus neglectus
).
Remarks.
Alycaeus dolomiticus
Heude, 1890 is a synonym of
Metalycaeus rathouisianus
(see
Pall-Gergely
et al. 2017
).
According to
Johnson (1973)
, paratypes of
A. neglectus
are present in the MCZ (inv. number: 167222) and the USNM (inventory number: 472336). In the revision of Chinese
Alycaeidae
(
Pall-Gergely
et al 2017
) we examined the former sample, but the locality ("China, Tong-lieou" in Anhui Province) did not match the type locality given in the original description (
"Kien-te"
in Zhejiang Province). Consequently, we did not consider them as type specimens; moreover, on a hand-written label of the MCZ 167222 sample the following text was written: "not types, only holotype in
Heude's
coll.". We have now been able to examine the specimens in the Beijing museum, and found that the specimens labelled as types also have the same type locality (
"Tong-lieu"
). The Beijing specimens were also labelled as lectotype (HMT-221a), and paralectotypes (HMT-221). It appears that although the locality on the type specimen labels and that in the original description do not match, the shells labelled as types are indeed types of
A. neglectus
. Since we did not find traces of the lectotype designation, we consider all type specimens of
A. neglectus
syntypes.
Since we did not consider the specimens in the MCZ types in
Pall-Gergely
et al. (2017)
, we had to rely on the original description regarding the identity of
A. neglectus
, and based on the low protoconch in the figure of the original description, we tentatively classified it in
Dicharax
. However, this opinion must now be revised: the shells labelled as types in the Beijing Museum and in the MCZ are identical, and they are also identical to typical
Alycaeus rathouisianus
shells. Thus,
A. neglectus
is considered a synonym of
A. rathouisianus
.
Figure 34.
Metalycaeus rathouisianus
(Heude, 1882), syntype: labelled as lectotype of
Alycaeus dolomiticus
(HMT-221a). Photographs: Kaibaryer Meng.
Figure 35.
Alycaeus neglectus
Heude, 1885, syntype (HMT-220a; synonym of
Metalycaeus rathouisianus
(Heude, 1882)). Photographs: Kaibaryer Meng.