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

Helicarion
Helicarion mastersi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
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

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Species within the genus Helicarion include:

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

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  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.
  4. ^ [1]. Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 18 September 2011.
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