Helicarion

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

Helicarion
Helicarion mastersi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Helicarionidae
Genus: Helicarion
Férussac, 1821[1]
Synonyms
  • Helecarion Férussac, 1821 (misspelling of original genus name, Helicarion Férussac, 1821)
  • Helicarion (Helicarion) Férussac, 1821
  • Helixarion Férussac, 1821 (incorrect original spelling)

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 species[4]
  • 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: syno,nym of Mysticarion porrectus Iredale, 1941
  • Helicarion rubicundus (Dartnall & Kershaw, 1978) was moved to the monotypic genus Attenborougharion in 2017

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. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. . Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 18 September 2011.


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