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).
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.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. 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
Bothriembryontidae incertae sedis (temporary name) Alterorhinus Salvador, F. S. Silva & Cavallari, 2023
Placostylinae Archaeostylus Brook & Hayward, 2022 Aspastus Albers, 1850Breure 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. . Basileostylus F. Haas, 1935 Callistocharis Pilsbry, 1900 Diplomorpha Ancey, 1884 Eumecostylus Martens in Albers, 1860 Euplacostylus Crosse, 1875 Leucocharis Pilsbry, 1900 Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900 Placostylus Beck, 1837 - the type genus of the (sub)family Placostylidae Poecilocharis Kobelt, 1891 Quiros Solem, 1959 Santacharis Iredale, 1927
Prestonellinae Discoleus Breure, 1978 Plectostylus Beck, 1837 Prestonella Connolly, 1929Breure 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. - type genus of the subfamily Prestonellinae
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
Further reading
Neubert E. & Janssen R. (2004). "Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 84: Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae (2), Orthalicidae, Placostylidae". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 133: 193-297. abstract. Pilsbry H. A. (1900). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 13. Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. 253 pp., 72 plates.