''Basileostylus'' is a

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of very large, air-breathing land snails,

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pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the

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Bothriembryontidae 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 ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Basileostylus F. Haas, 1935. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863079 on 2022-01-22

Species

* '' Basileostylus bollonsi'' (Suter, 1908)

References

* Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37-131 {{Taxonbar, from=Q21224351 Gastropod genera Bothriembryontidae