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Bothriembryontidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Family

Superfamily
  
Orthalicoidea

Higher classification
  
Orthalicoidea

Bothriembryontidae

Similar
  
Odontostomidae, Orthalicidae, Placostylus, Bulimulidae, Acavidae

Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.

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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).

Breure et al. (2010) moved Prestonella and Bothriembryon to Placostylidae.

Breure & Romero (2012) confirmed previous results from 2010 and they renamed Placostylidae to Bothriembryontidae.

  • subfamily Bothriembryontinae Iredale, 1937
  • subfamily Placostylinae Pilsbry, 1946 - for species from New Zealand and Melanesia

    • Prestonellinae was formally described as a new subfamily within Bothriembryontidae in 2016. Therefore three subfamilies are recognized in Bothriembryontidae:

  • subfamily Bothriembryontinae Iredale, 1937
  • subfamily Placostylinae Pilsbry, 1946
  • Prestonellinae van Bruggen, Herbert & Breure, 2016

    • Genera

    Genera within the family Bothriembryontidae include:

    Bothriembryontinae

  • Bothriembryon - the type genus of the family Bothriembryontidae

    • Placostylinae

  • Eumecostylus Martens in Albers, 1860
  • Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900
  • Placostylus Beck, 1837 - the type genus of the (sub)family Placostylidae

    • Prestonellinae

  • Discoleus Breure, 1978
  • Plectostylus Beck, 1837
  • Prestonella Connolly, 1929 - type genus of the subfamily Prestonellinae

    • subfamily?

  • Aspastus Albers, 1850
  • Callistocharis Pilsbry, 1900
  • Euplacostylus Crosse, 1875
  • Poecilocharis Kobelt, 1891
  • Santacharis Iredale, 1927

    • 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):

    Distribution

    Bothriembryontidae have Gondwanan distribution.

    References

    Bothriembryontidae Wikipedia
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