Mysticarion Explained

Mysticarion is a genus of air-breathing, tree-dwelling land snails, terrestrial arboreal pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family Helicarionidae.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Mysticarion include:

• Mysticarion hyalinus (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)https://web.archive.org/web/20120612112512/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/M/Mysticarion_porrectus/
• Mysticarion insuetus - the type subspecies http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Mysticarion/names
• 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• Mysticarion leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) : synonym of Microkerkus leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (superseded combination)

External links

• n I.T., de la Iglesia Lamborena I. & Köhler F. (2017). Molecular phylogenetics and systematic revision of the south-eastern Australian Helicarionidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Contributions to Zoology. 86(1): 51-95
• Australian Biological Resources Study page: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Mysticarion
• Zipcodezoo info: https://web.archive.org/web/20120612112512/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/M/Mysticarion_porrectus/

Notes and References

1. 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