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:
Bothriembryon angasianus (Pfeiffer, 1864)Bothriembryon balteolus Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon barretti Iredale, 1930Bothriembryon bradshaweri Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon brazieri (Angas, 1871)Bothriembryon bulla (Menke, 1843)† Bothriembryon consors Kendrick, 1978Bothriembryon costulatus (Lamarck, 1822)† Bothriembryon douglasi Kendrick, 1978Bothriembryon dux (Pfeiffer, 1861)Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon fuscus Thiele, 1930† Bothriembryon gardneri Kendrick, 1978Bothriembryon glauerti Iredale, 1939† Bothriembryon gunnii (Sowerby II in Strzelecki, 1845)Bothriembryon indutus (Menke, 1843)Bothriembryon irvineanus Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon jacksoni Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon kendricki Hill, Johnson & Merrifield, 1983Bothriembryon kingii (J. E. Gray, 1825)† Bothriembryon kremnobates Kendrick, 2005Bothriembryon leeuwinensis (E. A. Smith, 1894)Bothriembryon mastersi (Cox, 1867)Bothriembryon melo (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: Bothriembryon inflatus castaneus Pilsbry 1900Bothriembryon naturalistarum Kobelt, 1901Bothriembryon notatus Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon onslowi (Cox, 1864)Bothriembryon perditus Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon perobesus Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon praecelcus Iredale, 1939† Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael, 1968Bothriembryon revectus Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon rhodostomus (J. E. Gray, 1834)Bothriembryon richeanus Iredale, 1939† Bothriembryon ridei Kendrick, 1978Bothriembryon sayi (Pfeiffer, 1847)Bothriembryon sedgwicki Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon serpentinus Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon sophiarum Whisson & Breure, 2016Bothriembryon spenceri (Tate, 1894)Bothriembryon tasmanicus (Pfeiffer, 1853)Bothriembryon whitleyi Iredale, 1939Bothriembryon gratwicki Cox, 1899 - the taxonomic status of this species status is unclear
