Helicarion

Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.^[2]

Helicarion
Helicarion mastersi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicarionidae
Genus:	Helicarion Férussac, 1821[1]
Synonyms
Helecarion Férussac, 1821 (misspelling of original genus name, Helicarion Férussac, 1821) Helicarion (Helicarion) Férussac, 1821 Helixarion Férussac, 1821 (incorrect original spelling)

Helicarion is the type genus of the family Helicarionidae.^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Helicarion include:

• Helicarion altitudinis Pilsbry, 1934
• Helicarion australis Reeve, 1862
• Helicarion castanea (Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821 - type species^[4]
• Helicarion mastersi Cox, 1868
• Helicarion melanesicus I. Rensch, 1932
• Helicarion perfragilis Möllendorff, 1897 (taxon inquirendum)
• Helicarion schneideri I. Rensch, 1932
• Helicarion willeyana Godwin-Austen, 1903

Species brought into synonymy

• Helicarion leopardina Iredale, 1941: synonym of Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821
• Helicarion porrectusIredale, 1941: syno,nym of Mysticarion porrectus Iredale, 1941
• Helicarion rubicundus (Dartnall & Kershaw, 1978) was moved to the monotypic genus Attenborougharion in 2017