Helicarion
| Helicarion | |
|---|---|
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| Helicarion mastersi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicarioninae |
| Genus: | Helicarion Férussac, 1821[1] |
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 P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ . Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 18 September 2011.
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