''Mysticarion'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing, tree-dwelling
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial arboreal pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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s in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family
Helicarionidae
Helicarionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
Distribution
The distribution of Helicarionidae includes the eastern Palearctic, Malagasy, Ind ...
.
[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]
Species
Species within the genus ''Mysticarion'' include:
* ''
Mysticarion hyalinus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
* '' Mysticarion insuetus'' - the type subspecie
* '' Mysticarion leucospira'' ( Pfeiffer, 1857) - type species
* '' Mysticarion obscurior'' Hyman, Lamborena & Köhler, 2017
* ''Mysticarion porrectus
''Mysticarion porrectus'', also known as ''Helicarion porrectus'', is a tree-dwelling snail in the family Helicarionidae. It is endemic to Australia. This species occurs in and near rainforests at high altitude in eastern Australia. It is ass ...
'' (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* ''Mysticarion leucospira'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) : synonym of '' Microkerkus leucospira'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (superseded combination)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
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
* Zipcodezoo info
Helicarionidae
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