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Helicarion

Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.

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Helicarion
Helicarion mastersi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicarionidae
Genus: Helicarion
Férussac, 18211
Synonyms
  • Helecarion Férussac, 1821 (misspelling of original genus name, Helicarion Férussac, 1821)
  • Helicarion (Helicarion) Férussac, 1821
  • Helixarion Férussac, 1821 (incorrect original spelling)

Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.2

Helicarion is the type genus of the family Helicarionidae.3

Species

Species within the genus Helicarion include:

  • Helicarion altitudinis Pilsbry, 1934
  • Helicarion australis Reeve, 1862
  • Helicarion castanea (Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821 - type species4
  • Helicarion mastersi Cox, 1868
  • Helicarion melanesicus I. Rensch, 1932
  • Helicarion perfragilis Möllendorff, 1897 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Helicarion schneideri I. Rensch, 1932
  • Helicarion willeyana Godwin-Austen, 1903
Species brought into synonymy
  • Helicarion leopardina Iredale, 1941: synonym of Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821
  • Helicarion porrectusIredale, 1941: synonym of Mysticarion porrectus Iredale, 1941
  • Helicarion rubicundus (Dartnall & Kershaw, 1978) was moved to the monotypic genus Attenborougharion in 2017
References

References

  1. Férussac A. É. d'A. de (1821). Tableaux Systematiques des Animaux Mollusques: suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles vivantes ou fossiles. Paris, Bertrand xlvii, 114 pp., Tabl. gén., xxxi.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicarion Férussac, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818309 on 2021-01-31
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. [1]. Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 18 September 2011.
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