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Three new species of , namely , and are described and illustrated by male specimens. The male genitalia of can be distinguished from the other 16 species of the genus found in Southeast Asia by the shape of the phallicata. The phallicata of bears a tuft of long hairs in the middle of the dorsal edge.

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The generic taxonomy and host specialization of Xenidae have been understood differently by previous authors. Although the recent generic classification has implied a specialization on the level of host families or subfamilies, the hypothesis that each xenid genus is specialized to a single host genus was also previously postulated. A critical evaluation of the classification of the genera of Xenidae is provided here based on morphology in accordance with results of recent molecular phylogenetic studies.

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Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue.

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October 2020

Mollusca Section, Invertebrates Division, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museums, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom Natural History Museum London United Kingdom.

412 species-group names (including 11 replacement names), and 14 genus-group names of the Alycaeidae have been introduced to date. Type materials of 85% (336) of the known species and subspecies were examined, a further 5% (19) of the taxa were studied using available non-type material, and for another 6% (22) the original descriptions were sufficiently detailed to evaluate their taxonomic status. Only 3% of the taxa (12) could not be examined.

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Biomodal (flat/globular or slender/tall) shell/body shapes are associated with dichotomous (simultaneous reciprocal or non-reciprocal) modes of copulation behaviour in the fully-shelled stylommatophoran snails. In flat-shelled groups that copulate simultaneously reciprocally, no study has found an example of enantiomorphism that persists within a population. However, the original description of a flat camaenid snail, , noted that it is dextral- or sinistral-coiled.

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