Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
InfraOrdo: Limacoidei
Superfamilia: Helicarionoidea
Familia: Helicarionidae
Subfamilia: Helicarioninae
Genus: Helicarion
Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.[2]
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
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.
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
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.
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