Alycaeus

Alycaeus
Museum specimen of Alycaeus galbanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal groupArchitaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Cyclophoridae
Subfamily: Alycaeinae
Genus: Alycaeus
Baird, 1850 [1]

Alycaeus is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. It is the type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae.

Species

Species within the genus Alycaeus include:

Further reading

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