Genus Helicarion Férussac, 1821

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• Helicarion Férussac, A.E.J.P.J.F. d'A. de 1821. Tableaux Systematiques des Animaux Mollusques: suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles vivantes ou fossiles. Paris : Bertrand xlvii 114 pp. [Jan. 1821] [20].

  Type species:

   Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821 by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-219 [Date published November 1847] [169]
• Helixarion Férussac, A.E.J.P.J.F. d'A. de 1821. Tableaux Systematiques des Animaux Mollusques: suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles vivantes ou fossiles. Paris : Bertrand xlvii 114 pp. [Jan. 1821] [20] [Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1990. Case 2739. Helicarion Férussac, 1821 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation, and proposed designation of Helixarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 47: 258–262 (258) submission requesting ICZN to use plenary powers to suppress Helixarion].

  Type species:

   Helixarion freycineti Férussac, 1821 by subsequent designation, see Thon, D. 1829. Helixarion. pp. 149-150 in Ersche, J.C. & Gruber, J.G. (eds). Allgemeine Encyclopadie der Wissenschasten und Kunste. 2nd section (H-N). Leipzig : Johann Friedrich Gleditsch [149]

  Compiled from secondary source:

   Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1990. Case 2739. Helicarion Férussac, 1821 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation, and proposed designation of Helixarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 47: 258-262.
• Luinarion Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [38].

  Type species:

   Helicarion thomsoni Ancey, 1889 by original designation.
• Desidarion Iredale, T. 1941. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III. Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 [8].

  Type species:

   Desidarion dispositus Iredale, 1941 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [233] (Kershaw, R.C.)

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal