''Mysticarion'' is a

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of air-breathing, tree-dwelling

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

arboreal Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally (scansorial), but others are exclusively arboreal. The hab ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family

Helicarionidae Helicarionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea. Distribution The distribution of Helicarionidae includes the eastern Palearctic, Malagasy, ...

.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

Species

Species within the genus ''Mysticarion'' include: * '' Mysticarion hyalinus'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
* '' Mysticarion insuetus'' - the type subspecie

* '' Mysticarion leucospira'' ( Pfeiffer, 1857) - type species * '' Mysticarion obscurior'' Hyman, Lamborena & Köhler, 2017 * ''

Mysticarion porrectus ''Mysticarion porrectus'', also known as ''Helicarion porrectus'', is a tree-dwelling snail in the family Helicarionidae. It is endemic to Australia. This species occurs in and near rainforests at high altitude in eastern Australia. It is assoc ...

'' (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

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
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