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Mysticarion
Mysticarion porrectus from the Tia River, Great Dividing Range, Australia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Helicarionoidea
Family:	Helicarionidae
Genus:	Mysticarion Iredale, 1941
Type species
Mysticarion leucospira insuetus Iredale, 1941

Mysticarion is a genus of air-breathing, tree-dwelling land snails, terrestrial arboreal pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Helicarioninae of the family Helicarionidae.

Species

Species within the genus Mysticarion include:

• Mysticarion hyalinus (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Mysticarion insuetus - the type subspecies
• Mysticarion leucospira (Pfeiffer, 1857) - type species
• Mysticarion obscurior Hyman, Lamborena & Köhler, 2017
• Mysticarion porrectus (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• Mysticarion leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) : synonym of Microkerkus leucospira (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (superseded combination)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

1. Iredale T. (1941). "Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III." Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 .
2. ^ 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

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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