Genus Fastosarion Iredale, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fastosarion Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [37].

  Type species:

   Vitrina superba Cox, 1871 by original designation.
• Vercularion Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [38] [nomen nudum; unavailable, no description provided, see Hyman & Köhler (2019)].

  Type species:

   Helicarion bullaceus Odhner, 1917 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Hyman, I.T. & Kohler, F. 2019. Phylogeny and systematic revision of the helicarionid semislugs of eastern Queensland (Stylommatophora, Helicarionidae). Contributions to Zoology 88: 351-451 [397].
• Eungarion Stanisic, J. 1993. Eungarion mcdonaldi gen. et sp. nov., a montane semi-slug from mideastern Queensland rainforests (Pulmonata: Helicarionidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34: 27-34 [27].

  Type species:

   Eungarion mcdonaldi Stanisic, 1993 by original designation.
• Dimidarion Stanisic, J. in Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [314, 557] [etymology: a combination of the Latin dimidius = half and a contraction of Helicarion, referring to the small size of the species].

  Type species:

   Dimidarion alyssa Stanisic, 2010 by original designation.
• Hymanarion Stanisic, J. in Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [etymology: for land snail researcher Isabel Hyman, and a contraction of Helicarion].

  Type species:

   Hymanarion hanniana Stanisic, 2010 by original designation.

 

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. [231] (Kershaw, R.C.)
• Hyman, I.T. & Kohler, F. 2019. Phylogeny and systematic revision of the helicarionid semislugs of eastern Queensland (Stylommatophora, Helicarionidae). Contributions to Zoology 88: 351-451 (for Dimidarion, Eungarion and Hymanarion)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

ME NSW to the Wet Tropics, NE Qld

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Hyman, I.T. & Kohler, F. 2019. Phylogeny and systematic revision of the helicarionid semislugs of eastern Queensland (Stylommatophora, Helicarionidae). Contributions to Zoology 88: 351-451

Scott, B. 1995. Redescription of Fastosarion superba (Cox, 1871) with descriptions of two new species of Fastosarion from northern Queensland (Pulmonata: Helicarionidae). Molluscan Research 16: 69-80 [70-72]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Apr-2024	LIMACOIDEI ("Limacoid clade")	03-Sep-2024	MODIFIED
06-May-2020	STYLOMMATOPHORA	14-Apr-2020	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2014	HELICARIONIDAE	05-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic (BAAM)
18-Jun-2010		26-Jul-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)