Bothriembryon
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| Bothriembryon | |
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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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Bothriembryon is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bothriembryontidae.[4]
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]
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]
