Bothriembryon

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Bothriembryon
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Bothriembryon dux shell
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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,
7 fossil species

Synonyms [3]
  • Bothriembryon (Bothriembryon)Pilsbry, 1894
  • Bothriembryon (Tasmanembryon)Breure, 1979
  • Bulimus (Liparus)Albers, 1850
  • CelatembryonIredale, 1939
  • HartogembryonIredale, 1933
  • LarapintembryonIredale, 1933
  • LiparusAlbers, 1850 (invalid: junior homonym of LiparusOlivier, 1807 [Coleoptera]; Bothriembryon is a replacement name)
  • SatagembryonIredale, 1933

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

Contents

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:

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [6]

  1. ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1894). The Nautilus 8: 36.
  2. 1 2 Whisson C. S. & Breure A. S. H. (2016). "A new species of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bothriembryontidae) from south-eastern Western Australia". ZooKeys581: 127-140. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.581.8044 .
  3. ↑ MolluscaBase (2018). Helicina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994701 on 2018-02-22
  4. 1 2 3 Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  5. 1 2 Smith B. J. (1992) "Non-marine Mollusca". In: Houston W. W. K. (Ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 405 pp.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Breure A. S. H. & Whisson C. S. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums". ZooKyes 194: 41-80. doi : 10.3897/zookeys.194.2721 .
  7. 1 2 Ryan, Helen E.; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Milne, Lynne A.; Martin, Sarah K.; Thorn, Kailah M.; Whisson, Corey S. (2024-04-10). "A new Bothriembryon from the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, with insights on the age of Bothriembryon praecursor from Kangaroo Well, Northern Territory" . Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology: 1–16. doi:10.1080/03115518.2024.2323472. ISSN   0311-5518.
  8. ↑ PD-icon.svg Pilsbry H. A. (1900). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 13. Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus . Helicidae: Amphidromus. 253 pp., 72 plates.
  9. ↑ Breure A.S. H. (1979) "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 168: 1-215.
  10. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  11. 1 2 Breure A. S. H., Groenenberg D. S. J. & Schilthuizen M. (2010). "New insights in the phylogenetic relations within the Orthalicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) based on 28S sequence data". Basteria 74(1-3): 25-31.
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