Bothriembryon sophiarum is a species of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae. This species is endemic to Australia.
Bothriembryon sophiarum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
Genus: | Bothriembryon |
Species: | B. sophiarum
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Binomial name | |
Bothriembryon sophiarum Whisson & Breure, 2016[1]
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The anatomy of a reproductive system of this species was visualized by micro–computed tomography scanner (without dissection) and used in a species description of a land snail for the first time.[2]
References
edit- ^ Whisson C. S. & Breure A. S. H. (2016). "A new species of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bothriembryontidae) from south-eastern Western Australia". ZooKeys 581: 127-140. doi:10.3897/zookeys.581.8044.
- ^ Breure A. S. H. (2016). "New paper published". Bram's snailblog, HTML, published 14 April 2016.