Mysticarion
Mysticarion porrectus from the Tia River, Great Dividing Range, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Helicarionidae
Genus: Mysticarion
Iredale, 1941[1]
Type species
Mysticarion leucospira insuetus Iredale, 1941

Mysticarion is a genus of air-breathing, tree-dwelling land snails, terrestrial arboreal pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family Helicarionidae. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Mysticarion include:

  • Mysticarion hyalinus (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Mysticarion insuetus - the type subspecies
  • 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  • Mysticarion leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) : synonym of Microkerkus leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (superseded combination)

References

  1. Iredale T. (1941). "Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III." Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 [7].
  2. 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


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