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Helicarion mastersi
Species of semislug from Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Helicarion mastersi is a species of air-breathing land snail, also referred to as a semi-slug because of its small shell. It is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicarionidae.
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Helicarion mastersi | |
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Helicarion mastersi, about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, crawling on a wet track at Pigeon House Mountain, Australia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Helicarionidae |
Genus: | Helicarion |
Species: | H. mastersi |
Binomial name | |
Helicarion mastersi | |
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Distribution map of Helicarion mastersi | |
Synonyms | |
Vitrina mastersi J. C. Cox, 1868 |
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The specific name mastersi is in honor of the Australian malacologist George Masters (1837–1912),[2] who collected the type specimen.[1]