Chamalycaeus reinhardti ( Moerch , 1872)

Alycaeus (Charax) reinhardi (sic) Mörch , 1872a: 22.

Alycaeus (Charax) reinhardi (sic) - Mörch 1872b: 315.

Alycaeus nicobaricus Reeve, 1878: pl. 4, species 29.

Alycaeus reinhardti - Godwin-Austen 1895: 455; Godwin-Austen 1914: 431; Gude 1921: 216-217.

Alycaeus (Alycaeus) reinhardti - Kobelt 1902: 349; Subba Rao and Mitra 1991: 26, pl. 3, fig. 4.; Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 50.

Type locality.

"Bords de la rivière Galathea, sur la terre, sous les feuilles mortes" and "Kar Nicobar".

Material examined.

Great Nicobar, coll. Godwin-Austen, NHMUK 1903.7.1.2711.

Remarks.

Spire elevated, shell slightly wider than high; protoconch elevated, no spiral lines visible; R1 with irregular ribs, and somewhat weaker spiral lines; R2 relatively long, with widely spaced, regular, sharp ribs.

The original spelling of the species was reinhardi , which was corrected to reinhardti by Kobelt (1902). This was a justified emendation under the Article 32.5. of the ICZN Code, because it was obvious that Mörch (1872a) named the new species after the collector Reinhardt.

Godwin-Austen (1895) mentioned that the type of this species is from Great Nicobar Island, and the form from Camorta is named f. minor by Mörch . However, we have not found the publication in which Mörch introduced that name.

Reeve’s A. nicobaricus was not examined by us, but it was considered to be a junior synonym of A. reinhardti by Gude (1921).