''Boettgeria crispa'' is a species of small, very elongate, air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

s, terrestrial

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium. This species is endemic to Portugal. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Molluscs of Europe Boettgeria Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe Gastropods described in 1831 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Clausiliidae-stub