Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.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
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. Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 18 September 2011. 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
References
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.