Bothriembryontidae
Family of gastropods
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Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae Iredale, 1937 |
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| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Taxonomy
This family has been named Placostylidae and had no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[4]
Breure et al. (2010)[5] moved Prestonella and Bothriembryon to Placostylidae.
Breure & Romero (2012)[2] confirmed previous results from 2010 and they renamed Placostylidae to Bothriembryontidae.[2]
- subfamily Bothriembryontinae Iredale, 1937
- subfamily Placostylinae Pilsbry, 1946 - for species from New Zealand and Melanesia[2]
Prestonellinae was formally described as a new subfamily within Bothriembryontidae in 2016.[6] Therefore three subfamilies are recognized in Bothriembryontidae:
- subfamily Bothriembryontinae Iredale, 1937
- subfamily Placostylinae Pilsbry, 1946
- Prestonellinae van Bruggen, Herbert & Breure, 2016[6]
Genera
Genera within the family Bothriembryontidae include:
Bothriembryontinae
- Bothriembryon - the type genus of the family Bothriembryontidae[2][5][7]
Bothriembryontidae incertae sedis (temporary name)
- Alterorhinus Salvador, F. S. Silva & Cavallari, 2023
Placostylinae
- Archaeostylus Brook & Hayward, 2022[8]
- Aspastus Albers, 1850[7]
- Basileostylus F. Haas, 1935
- Callistocharis Pilsbry, 1900[7]
- Diplomorpha Ancey, 1884
- Eumecostylus Martens in Albers, 1860[2][7]
- Euplacostylus Crosse, 1875[7]
- Leucocharis Pilsbry, 1900
- Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900[2][7]
- Placostylus Beck, 1837 - the type genus of the (sub)family Placostylidae[2][4][7]
- Poecilocharis Kobelt, 1891[7]
- Quiros Solem, 1959
- Santacharis Iredale, 1927[7]
Prestonellinae
- Discoleus Breure, 1978[2][6]
- Plectostylus Beck, 1837[2][6][7]
- Prestonella Connolly, 1929[2][5][7] - type genus of the subfamily Prestonellinae[6]
A cladogram based on nuclear ITS2, 28S rRNA and histone 3 (H3) and sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of Bothriembryontidae by Breure & Romero (2012):[2]
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