Superfamily Helicarionoidea Subfamily Helicarioninae | ||
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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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The specific name mastersi is in honor of the Australian malacologist George Masters (1837-1912), who collected the type specimen.
Subspecies
Subspecies include:
Distribution
This species is found in New South Wales, Australia.
The type locality is Kiama, New South Wales, Australia.
Description
Helicarion mastersi was originally described (under the name Vitrina mastersi) by James Charles Cox in 1868. Cox's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Ecology
This semislug lives in closed Eucalyptus forests. It is primarily an arboreal species, but it can also be found in leaf litter.