Mysticarion
Genus of gastropods
| Mysticarion | |
|---|---|
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| Mysticarion porrectus from the Tia River, Great Dividing Range, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| 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)[1]
- Mysticarion insuetus - the type subspecies [2]
- 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- Mysticarion leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) : synonym of Microkerkus leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (superseded combination)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
- ^ Iredale T. (1941). "Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III." Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 [7].
- ^ a b 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
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: [3]
- Zipcodezoo info: [4]
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