Helicarion

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Helicarionidae		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Helicarionoidea Subfamily Helicarioninae

Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicarionidae.

Helicarion is the type genus of the family Helicarionidae.

Species

Species within the genus Helicarion include:

Helicarion australis Reeve, 1862

Helicarion castanea (Pfeiffer, 1853)

Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821 - type species

Helicarion leopardina Iredale, 1941

Helicarion mastersi Cox, 1868

Helicarion perfragilis

Helicarion porrectus, also known as Mysticarion porrectus Iredale, 1941

Helicarion rubicundus (Dartnall & Kershaw, 1978) was moved to the monotypic genus Attenborougharion in 2017

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