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.