Bothriembryon sophiarum

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Bothriembryon sophiarum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bothriembryontidae
Genus: Bothriembryon
Species:
B. sophiarum
Binomial name
Bothriembryon sophiarum
Whisson & Breure, 2016 [1]

Bothriembryon sophiarum is a species of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae. This species is endemic to Australia.

The anatomy of a reproductive system of this species was visualized by micro–computed tomography scanner (without dissection) and used in a species description of a land snail for the first time. [2]

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References

  1. 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.
  2. Breure A. S. H. (2016). "New paper published". Bram's snailblog, HTML, published 14 April 2016.