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