Dicharax is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Alycaeidae.[1]

Dicharax
Shell of Dicharax abdoui (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Alycaeidae
Genus: Dicharax
Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900
Type species
Alycaeus hebes Benson, 1857
Synonyms
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  • Alycaeus (Charax) Benson, 1859
  • Alycaeus (Dicharax) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900
  • Awalycaeus Kuroda, 1951
  • Chamalycaeus (Cipangocharax) Kuroda, 1943
  • Chamalycaeus (Dicharax) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900
  • Chamalycaeus (Sigmacharax) Kuroda, 1943
  • Cipangocharax Kuroda, 1943

Species

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Species within the genus Dicharax include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Dicharax canaliculatus (Möllendorff, 1894): synonym of Chamalycaeus canaliculatus (Möllendorff, 1894) (unaccepted combination)
  • Dicharax crenulatus (Benson, 1859): synonym of Metalycaeus crenulatus (Benson, 1859) (unaccepted combination)
  • Dicharax davisi (Godwin-Austen, 1914): synonym of Dicharax cucullatus (Theobald, 1870) (junior synonym)
  • Dicharax neglectus (Heude, 1885): synonym of Metalycaeus rathouisianus (Heude, 1882) (unaccepted combination)
  • Dicharax neglectus (Godwin-Austen, 1914): synonym of Metalycaeus godwinausteni Páll-Gergely, 2020 (invalid: senior homonym of Alycaeus neglectus Heude, 1885)
  • Dicharax prosectus (Benson, 1857): synonym of Metalycaeus prosectus (Benson, 1857) (unaccepted combination)
  • Dicharax rugosus (Godwin-Austen, 1914): synonym of Metalycaeus rugosus (Godwin-Austen, 1914) (unaccepted combination)
  • Dicharax stylifer (Benson, 1857): synonym of Metalycaeus stylifer (Benson, 1857) (unaccepted combination)
  • Dicharax teriaensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914): synonym of Metalycaeus teriaensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914) (unaccepted combination)
  • Dicharax toruputuensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914): synonym of Metalycaeus toruputuensis (Godwin-Austen, 1914) (unaccepted combination)

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1039734 on 2021-04-24
  • Kuroda, T. (1943). New Land Shells from Tyugoku District (1) : A New Species belonging to a New Subgenus of the Genus Chamalycaeus. Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 13(1-4): 7-11.
  • Kuroda, T. (1951). On Awalycaeus abei, gen. et sp. nov. (Cyclophoridae)(The Celebration Number of Mr. T. Kanamaru's 60th Birthday). Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 17(3): 73-74.
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