Helicarion
Genus of land snails and semislugs
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Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Genus: | Helicarion Férussac, 1821[1] |
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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: synonym of Mysticarion porrectus Iredale, 1941
- Helicarion rubicundus (Dartnall & Kershaw, 1978) was moved to the monotypic genus Attenborougharion in 2017