Mysticarion

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

Mysticarion
Mysticarion porrectus from the Tia River, Great Dividing Range, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Helicarionoidea
Family:
Helicarionidae
Genus:
Mysticarion

Species

Species within the genus Mysticarion include:

  • Mysticarion leucospira insuetus - the type subspecies
  • Mysticarion hyalina
  • Mysticarion leucospira (Pfeiffer, 1857) - type species
  • Mysticarion porrectus

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