Alycaeidae is a
taxonomic family
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of small to large
tropical
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land snails with an
operculum,
terrestrial gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Cyclophoroidea.
[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]
Genera
* ''
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
External links
Blanford, W. T. (1864). On the classification of the Cyclostomacea of eastern Asia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 13(78): 441-465Páll-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
Alycaeidae
Gastropod families
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