Helicarion
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| Helicarion mastersi | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Genus: | Helicarion |
Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicarionidae.
Helicarion is the type genus of the family Helicarionidae.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Helicarion include:
- Helicarion australis Reeve, 1862
- Helicarion castanea (Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821 - type species[3]
- Helicarion leopardina Iredale, 1941
- Helicarion mastersi Cox, 1868
- Helicarion perfragilis
- Helicarion porrectus, also known as Mysticarion porrectus Iredale, 1941
- Helicarion rubicundus Dartnall & Kershaw, 1978
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ [1]. Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 18 September 2011.