Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue.

ABSTRACT: 412 species-group names (including 11 replacement names), and 14 genus-group names of the Alycaeidae have been introduced to date. Type materials of 85% (336) of the known species and subspecies were examined, a further 5% (19) of the taxa were studied using available non-type material, and for another 6% (22) the original descriptions were sufficiently detailed to evaluate their taxonomic status. Only 3% of the taxa (12) could not be examined. Special attention was paid to the sculpture of the embryonic whorls and the sutural tube-microtunnel system in order to provide a novel classification for this group. In this study 363 taxa (320 species or 43 subspecies) are accepted within the family Alycaeidae. Of these, 22 have been described by the lead author and his coauthors in previous publi

SUBMITTER: Pall-Gergely B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7644702 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature