Mysticarion

Mysticarion
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
Iredale, 1941[1]

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

Species

Species within the genus Mysticarion include:

  • Mysticarion leucospira insuetus - the type subspecies [1]

References

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

External links

  • Australian Biological Resources Study page: [3]
  • Zipcodezoo info: [4]