Bothriembryon is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bothriembryontidae.[4]
Bothriembryon | |
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Bothriembryon dux shell | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
Subfamily: | Bothriembryontinae |
Genus: | Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894[1] |
Diversity[2] | |
43 species, 36 extant species, | |
Synonyms[3] | |
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B. J. Smith (1992)[5] made the last review of the genus summarizing all known data.[6]
The land snail genus Bothriembryon is endemic to Australia but forms part of the Gondwanan element in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.[6] Bothriembryon species are mostly patchy in their distribution.[6]
This genus was classified with the Bulimulidae by Pilsbry (1900),[7] Breure (1979)[8] and by B. J. Smith (1992).[5][6]
It was classified in tribe Bulimulini, in subfamily Bulimulinae within the family Orthalicidae according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[9]
Breure et al. (2010)[10] moved Bothriembryon to Placostylidae.[10]
Breure & Romero (2012)[4] confirmed previous results from 2010 and they renamed Placostylidae to Bothriembryontidae.[4]
Species within the genus Bothriembryon include:
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