Metalycaeus sinensis (Heude, 1882)
Alycaeus sinensis Heude, 1882: 7, pl. 12, figs 13, 13a.
Alycaeus sinensis - Möllendorff 1882: 345.
Alycaeus (Chamalycaeus) sinensis - Kobelt and Möllendorff 1897: 149; Kobelt 1902: 363.
Metalycaeus sinensis - Páll-Gergely et al. 2017: 103-104, fig 55.
Type locality.
"Ad radices saxorum inter folia decidua in districtu Tong-lieou (東流), provinciæ Ngan-houé” .
Material examined.
China, Tong-lieou, MCZ 167216 (lectotype, designated by Páll-Gergely et al. 2017).
Remarks.
Protoconch relatively low, with very fine matte surface and barely visible spiral lines; R1 with rather regular ribs and much weaker spiral lines between; ribs become more widely spaced towards the end of R1; R2 with relatively low, widely spaced ribs, however all available shells were weathered.