Helicarion Explained

Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.^[1]

Helicarion is the type genus of the family Helicarionidae.

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^[2]
• 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

External links

• Férussac, A.E.J.P.F. d'Audebard de. (1821-1822). Tableaux systématiques des animaux mollusques classés en familles naturelles, dans lesquels on a établi la concordance de tous les systèmes; suivis d'un Prodrome général pour tous les mollusques ou fluviatiles, vivantes ou fossiles. Paris, 1821 et 1822. Livraison 9: 1-24
• 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.
• Godwin-Austen H.H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.

Notes and References

1. 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
2. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Helicarion