Helicarion cuvieri

Helicarion cuvieri is a species of air-breathing land snail or semi-slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicarionidae.

Helicarion cuvieri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicarionidae
Genus:	Helicarion
Species:	H. cuvieri
Binomial name
Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821
Synonyms
Helicarion leopardina Iredale, 1941 Helicarion mastersi callidus Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym) Helicarion nigra (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) (junior synonym) Helix buttoni Petterd, 1879 (junior synonym) Helix vitrinaformis Legrand, 1871 (junior synonym) Vitrina nigra Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (junior synonym) Vitrina verrauxii Pfeiffer, 1850 (junior synonym)

Distribution

This species is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

External links

• Pfeiffer, L. (1850). Descriptions of twelve new species of Vitrina and Succinea from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 17 (198)
• Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833]. Paris: Tastu]
• Hyman, I. T.; Köhler, F. (2018). Reconciling comparative anatomy and mitochondrial phylogenetics in revising species limits in the Australian semislug Helicarion Férussac, 1821 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society