Alycaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea.
Genera
- Alycaeus <small>Gray, 1850</small>
- Boucardicus <small>Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965</small>
- Chamalycaeus <small>Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897</small>
- Cycloryx <small>Godwin-Austen, 1914</small>
- Dicharax <small>Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900</small>
- Dioryx <small>Benson, 1859</small>
- Laotia <small>Saurin, 1953</small>
- Messageria <small>Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1904</small>
- Metalycaeus <small>Pilsbry, 1900</small>
- Pincerna <small>Preston, 1907</small>
- Stomacosmethis <small>Bollinger, 1918</small>
Synonyms:
- Alcaeus <small>Gray, 1850</small>: synonym of Alycaeus <small>Gray, 1850</small> (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Awalycaeus <small>Kuroda, 1951</small>: synonym of Dicharax <small>Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900</small> (junior synonym)
- Cipangocharax <small>Kuroda, 1943</small>: synonym of Dicharax <small>Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900</small> (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): 441-465
- 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: 1âÂÂ220