Bothriembryon
Genus of gastropods
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Bothriembryon is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bothriembryontidae.[4]
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| Bothriembryon dux shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| 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]
Distribution
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]
Fossils of Bothriembryon have been found on the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia, dating to the late Pliocene.[7]
Taxonomy
This genus was classified with the Bulimulidae by Pilsbry (1900),[8] Breure (1979)[9] 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.[10]
Breure et al. (2010)[11] moved Bothriembryon to Placostylidae.[11]
Breure & Romero (2012)[4] confirmed previous results from 2010 and they renamed Placostylidae to Bothriembryontidae.[4]
Species
Species within the genus Bothriembryon include:
- Bothriembryon angasianus (Pfeiffer, 1864)[6]
- Bothriembryon balteolus Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon barretti Iredale, 1930[6]
- Bothriembryon bradshaweri Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon brazieri (Angas, 1871)[6]
- Bothriembryon bulla (Menke, 1843)[6]
- † Bothriembryon consors Kendrick, 1978[6]
- Bothriembryon costulatus (Lamarck, 1822)[6]
- † Bothriembryon douglasi Kendrick, 1978[6]
- Bothriembryon dux (Pfeiffer, 1861)[6]
- Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon fuscus Thiele, 1930[6]
- † Bothriembryon gardneri Kendrick, 1978[6]
- Bothriembryon glauerti Iredale, 1939[6]
- † Bothriembryon gunnii (Sowerby II in Strzelecki, 1845)[6]
- Bothriembryon indutus (Menke, 1843)[6]
- Bothriembryon irvineanus Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon jacksoni Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon kendricki Hill, Johnson & Merrifield, 1983[6]
- Bothriembryon kingii (J. E. Gray, 1825)[6]
- † Bothriembryon kremnobates Kendrick, 2005[6]
- Bothriembryon leeuwinensis (E. A. Smith, 1894)[6]
- Bothriembryon mastersi (Cox, 1867)[6]
- Bothriembryon melo (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)[6] - synonym: Bothriembryon inflatus castaneus Pilsbry 1900[6]
- Bothriembryon naturalistarum Kobelt, 1901[6]
- Bothriembryon notatus Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon onslowi (Cox, 1864)[6]
- Bothriembryon perditus Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon perobesus Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon pilkiensis Ryan et al., 2024[7]
- Bothriembryon praecelcus Iredale, 1939[6]
- † Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael, 1968[6]
- Bothriembryon revectus Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon rhodostomus (J. E. Gray, 1834)[6]
- Bothriembryon richeanus Iredale, 1939[6]
- † Bothriembryon ridei Kendrick, 1978[6]
- Bothriembryon sayi (Pfeiffer, 1847)[6]
- Bothriembryon sedgwicki Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon serpentinus Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon sophiarum Whisson & Breure, 2016[2]
- Bothriembryon spenceri (Tate, 1894)[6]
- Bothriembryon tasmanicus (Pfeiffer, 1853)[6]
- Bothriembryon whitleyi Iredale, 1939[6]
- Bothriembryon gratwicki Cox, 1899 - the taxonomic status of this species status is unclear[6]
