Dicharax politus (W.T. Blanford, 1865 )

Páll-Gergely, Barna, Gojšina, Vukašin & Aravind, Neelavar Ananthram, 2025, A review of Chamalycaeus, Cycloryx and Dicharax species of the Himalaya and Myanmar and seven new species of Alycaeinae from the Blue Mountain, Mizoram, India (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae), European Journal of Taxonomy 1029, pp. 1-158 : 123-124

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1029.3131
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scientific name	Dicharax politus (W.T. Blanford, 1865 )
status

Treatment

Dicharax politus (W.T. Blanford, 1865) View in CoL

Fig. 62K–O

Alycaeus politus W.T. Blanford, 1865: 83–84 View in CoL .

Alycaeus politus View in CoL – Sowerby 1877: pl. 5, species 39. — Godwin-Austen 1914: 422, pl. 139 figs 5, 5a. — Gude 1921: 214–215.

Alycaeus ( Alycaeus) politus View in CoL – Kobelt 1902: 348.

Dicharax politus View in CoL – Páll-Gergely et al. 2020: 71 View Cited Treatment .

Diagnosis

This species is characterized by a glossy, depressed shell, a finely ribbed R2, a strongly inflated, long R3 swelling, and a deep constriction between R2 and R3. See also under D. dalingensis , D. lenticulus , D. nattoungensis and D. nongtungensis .

Type material examined

MYANMAR • 3 probable syntypes ( Fig. 62K–O); Phungdo, Arakan; Blanford coll.; NHMUK 1906.4 About NHMUK .4.178 .

Type locality

“Phuong do, near Cape Negrais, Arakan ”.

References

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Architaenioglossa
Family	Alycaeidae
Genus	Dicharax