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Bothriembryon Kingii
''Bothriembryon'' is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bothriembryontidae. B. J. Smith (1992) made the last review of the genus summarizing all known data. Distribution The land snail genus ''Bothriembryon'' is endemic to List of non-marine molluscs of Australia, Australia but forms part of the Gondwanan element in the superfamily Orthalicoidea. ''Bothriembryon'' species are mostly patchy in their distribution. Taxonomy This genus was classified with the Bulimulidae by Pilsbry (1900), Breure (1979)Breure A.S. H. (1979) "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". ''Zoologische Verhandelingen'' Leiden 168: 1-215. and by B. J. Smith (1992).Smith B. J. (1992) "Non-marine Mollusca". In: Houston W. W. K. (Ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 405 pp. It was classified in tribe Bulimulini, in subfamily Bul ...
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Bothriembryon Dux
''Bothriembryon'' is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bothriembryontidae. B. J. Smith (1992) made the last review of the genus summarizing all known data. Distribution The land snail genus ''Bothriembryon'' is endemic to List of non-marine molluscs of Australia, Australia but forms part of the Gondwanan element in the superfamily Orthalicoidea. ''Bothriembryon'' species are mostly patchy in their distribution. Taxonomy This genus was classified with the Bulimulidae by Pilsbry (1900), Breure (1979)Breure A.S. H. (1979) "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". ''Zoologische Verhandelingen'' Leiden 168: 1-215. and by B. J. Smith (1992).Smith B. J. (1992) "Non-marine Mollusca". In: Houston W. W. K. (Ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 405 pp. It was classified in tribe Bulimulini, in subfamily Bul ...
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