''Boettgerilla'' is a genus of air-breathing land

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Boettgerillidae ''Boettgerilla'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Boettgerillidae. The generic name ''Boettgerilla'' is named after the German malacologist Oskar Boettger. Taxonomy ''Boettger ...

. The generic name ''Boettgerilla'' is named after the German malacologist Oskar Boettger.

Taxonomy

''Boettgerilla'' is the only genus in the family Boettgerillidae. Wiktor A. (1989). ''Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)''. Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 134-137. This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Boettgerillidae Van Goethem, 1972 is not an available name, because it has no diagnosis.

Distribution

Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western

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Species

There are two species in the genus ''Boettgerilla'' and they include: * ''

Boettgerilla compressa ''Boettgerilla compressa'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Boettgerillidae. ''Boettgerilla compressa'' is the type species of the genus ''Boettgerilla''. Wiktor A. (1989). ''Lima ...

'' Simroth, 1910 - type species"Genus taxon summary for ''Boettgerilla''"
AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010. * '' Boettgerilla pallens'' Simroth, 1912

Cladogram

A cladogram showing the

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relationships of this family to other families within the

limacoid clade The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina Distribution The original ancestral area of limacoid families is thought to be the ...

:Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". ''

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References

External links

British Non-marine Molluscs: Families
{{Taxonbar, from=Q2595309 Boettgerillidae Gastropod genera