Bothriembryontidae

Bothriembryontidae
	A shell of the subspecies Placostylus ambagiosus priscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bothriembryontidae; Iredale, 1937
Genera
	See text
Synonyms
	Placostylidae Pilsbry, 1946

Eumecostylus hargravesi from the Solomon Islands.

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

Taxonomy[]

This family has been named Placostylidae and had no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).^[4]

Breure et al. (2010)^[5] moved Prestonella and Bothriembryon to Placostylidae.

Breure & Romero (2012)^[2] confirmed previous results from 2010 and they renamed Placostylidae to Bothriembryontidae.^[2]

subfamily Bothriembryontinae Iredale, 1937
subfamily Placostylinae Pilsbry, 1946 - for species from New Zealand and Melanesia^[2]

Prestonellinae was formally described as a new subfamily within Bothriembryontidae in 2016.^[6] Therefore three subfamilies are recognized in Bothriembryontidae:

subfamily Bothriembryontinae Iredale, 1937
subfamily Placostylinae Pilsbry, 1946
Prestonellinae van Bruggen, Herbert & Breure, 2016^[6]

Genera[]

Genera within the family Bothriembryontidae include:

Bothriembryontinae

Bothriembryon - the type genus of the family Bothriembryontidae^[2]^[5]^[7]

Placostylinae

Albers, 1850^[7]
Basileostylus F. Haas, 1935
Pilsbry, 1900^[7]
Ancey, 1884
Eumecostylus Martens in Albers, 1860^[2]^[7]
Crosse, 1875^[7]
Leucocharis Pilsbry, 1900
Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900^[2]^[7]
Placostylus Beck, 1837 - the type genus of the (sub)family Placostylidae^[2]^[4]^[7]
Poecilocharis Kobelt, 1891^[7]
Solem, 1959
Iredale, 1927^[7]

Prestonellinae

Breure, 1978^[2]^[6]
Plectostylus Beck, 1837^[2]^[6]^[7]
Prestonella Connolly, 1929^[2]^[5]^[7] - type genus of the subfamily Prestonellinae^[6]

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):^[2]

Bothriembryontidae

Plectostylus

Prestonella

	Prestonella bowkeri

	Prestonella nuptialis

Bothriembryon

Placostylus

	Placostylus eddystonensis

	Placostylus ambagiosus

Eumecostylus

Placocharis

Distribution[]

Bothriembryontidae have Gondwanan distribution.^[2]

References[]

^ MolluscaBase (2018). Helicina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994701 on 2018-02-22
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m 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.
^ Pilsbry H. A. (1946). "Notes on the anatomy of Australian and Galapagos Bulimidae (Mollusca, Pulmonata)." 168: 1-4. Placostylidae is on the page 3.
^ ^a ^b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bruggen A. C. van, Herbert D. G. & Breure A. S. H. (2016). "Prestonellinae – validation of the name as a new subfamily of Bothriembryontidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea)". Zootaxa 4084: 590–592.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 182: 1-70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.182.2720.

External links[]

[WoRMS-1] MolluscaBase (2018). Helicina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994701 on 2018-02-22

[Breure_2012-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m 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.

[3] Pilsbry H. A. (1946). "Notes on the anatomy of Australian and Galapagos Bulimidae (Mollusca, Pulmonata)." 168: 1-4. Placostylidae is on the page 3.

[Bouchet_2005-4] Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.

[Breure_2010-5] 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.

[van_Bruggen_2016-6] Bruggen A. C. van, Herbert D. G. & Breure A. S. H. (2016). "Prestonellinae – validation of the name as a new subfamily of Bothriembryontidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea)". Zootaxa 4084: 590–592.

[Breure_&_Ablett_2012-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 182: 1-70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.182.2720.

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