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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: Mysticarion

Mysticarion is a genus of air-breathing, tree-dwelling land snails, terrestrial arboreal pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family Helicarionidae.[2]
Species

Species within the genus Mysticarion include:

Mysticarion hyalinus (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)[1]
Mysticarion insuetus - the type subspecies [2]
Mysticarion leucospira (Pfeiffer, 1857) - type species
Mysticarion obscurior Hyman, Lamborena & Köhler, 2017
Mysticarion porrectus (Iredale, 1941)

Species brought into synonymy

Mysticarion huberi Thach, 2016: synonym of Megaustenia huberi (Thach, 2016) (original combination)
Mysticarion leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) : synonym of Microkerkus leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (superseded combination)

References

Iredale T. (1941). "Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III." Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 [7].
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mysticarion Iredale, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818401 on 2021-08-26

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