Metalycaeus

Metalycaeus
Shell of Metalycaeus ibex (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Alycaeidae
Genus:	Metalycaeus Pilsbry, 1900
Synonyms
Alycaeus (Metalycaeus) Pilsbry, 1900 (original rank) Alycaeus (Raptomphalus) Godwin-Austen, 1914 (junior synonym) Chamalycaeus (Metalycaeus) Pilsbry, 1900 (unaccepted rank) Chamalycaeus (Raptomphalus) Godwin-Austen, 1914 (junior synonym)

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

Species[]

; Species brought into synonymy:

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

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• 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.