Alycaeidae

Alycaeidae
Shell of Laotia pahiensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Alycaeidae W. T. Blanford, 1864
Synonyms
Alycaeinae W. T. Blanford, 1864 (unaccepted rank)

Alycaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea.^[1]

• 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)

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• 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: 1–220

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