Genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894
- Bothriembryon Pilsbry, H.A. 1894. Note on Liparus. Nautilus 8: 35-36 [July 1894] [36].
Type species:
Helix melo Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 by original designation. - Liparus Martens, E.C. von 1860. Nachträge. In, Albers, J.C. Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. 2. Ausgabe herausgegeben von E. von Martens. Leipzig : Verl. Wilhelm Engelman 359 pp. [229] [non Liparus Oliver, 1807].
Type species:
Bulimus inflatus Lamarck, 1822 by original designation. - Hartogembryon Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [41].
Type species:
Bulimus onslowi Cox, 1864 by original designation. - Larapintembryon Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [41].
Type species:
Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894 by original designation. - Satagembryon Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [41].
Type species:
Bulimus gratwicki Cox, 1899 by original designation. - Tasmanembryon Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [41] [nomen nudum; no description provided, unavailable from Iredale (1933)].
Type species:
Bulimus tasmanicus Pfeiffer, 1853 by original designation. - Dialembryon Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 2(1): 1-88 [published 1 Aug 1939; same text re-published 21 Aug.1939 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25:1–88] [16] [nomen nudum].
Type species:
Bulimus dux Pfeiffer, 1861 by original designation. - Ponembryon Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 2(1): 1-88 [published 1 Aug 1939; same text re-published 21 Aug.1939 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25:1–88] [16] [nomen nudum; unavailable, no description provided, see Köhler & Boucher (2020)].
Type species:
Bulimus indutus Menke, 1843 by original designation. - Telembryon Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 2(1): 1-88 [published 1 Aug 1939; same text re-published 21 Aug.1939 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25:1–88] [16] [nomen nudum; unavailable, no description provided, see Köhler & Bouchet (2020)].
Type species:
Bulimus kingii Gray, 1825 by original designation, see Kendrick, G.W. & Wilson, B.R. 1975. Nomenclatural notes on the land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Pulmonata : Bulimulidae), with redescriptions of the type and two other species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 295-325 [313]. - Celatembryon Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25: 1-88 [21 Aug. 1939] [36].
Type species:
Bothriembryon distinctus Iredale, 1939 by original designation. - Tasmanembryon Breure, A.S.H. 1979. Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulidae (Mollusca). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 168: 1-215 [95-96].
Type species:
Bulimus tasmanicus L. Pfeiffer, 1853 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Breure, A.S.H. 1979. Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulidae (Mollusca). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 168: 1-215 [91]
- Kershaw, R.C. 1986. Anatomical notes on the land snail Bothriembryon (Pulmonata : Bulimulidae) from South Australia and Western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 327-337 [327] (Tasmanembryon Iredale 1933)
- Köhler, F. & Bouchet, P. 2020. On unavailable genus-group names introduced by Tom Iredale for Australian non-marine gastropods: nomenclatural clarifications and descriptions of new genera. Molluscan Research 40(2): 150-159 [156]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NT, SA, Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, WA: Central Ranges (CR), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK)