| Helicarion mastersi | |
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| Helicarion mastersi, about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, crawling on a wet track at Pigeon House Mountain, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Genus: | Helicarion |
| Species: | H. mastersi
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| Binomial name | |
| Helicarion mastersi | |
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| Distribution map of Helicarion mastersi | |
| Synonyms | |
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Vitrina mastersi J. C. Cox, 1868 | |
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.
The specific name mastersi is in honor of the Australian malacologist George Masters (1837–1912),[2] who collected the type specimen.[1]
- ^ a b Cox, J. C. (1868). A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney: William Maddock. p. 86, plate XIV, figure 12, 12a. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
- ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed. Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society