Prestonellidae
| Bothriembryontidae | |
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| A shell of the subspecies Placostylus ambagiosus priscus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: |
Bothriembryontidae Iredale, 1937 |
| Diversity | |
| 102 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Placostylidae Pilsbry, 1946 |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Placostylidae Pilsbry, 1946
Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.
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.
Prestonellinae was formally described as a new subfamily within Bothriembryontidae in 2016. Therefore three subfamilies are recognized in Bothriembryontidae:
Genera within the family Bothriembryontidae include:
Bothriembryontinae
Placostylinae
Prestonellinae
subfamily?
A cladogram based on nuclear ITS2, 28S rRNA and histone 3 (H3) and sequences of mitochondrial (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of Bothriembryontidae by Breure & Romero (2012):
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