Boettgerilla compressa

Boettgerilla compressa
A 1910 drawing of preserved specimens of Boettgerilla compressa from the original description by Heinrich Simroth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Limacoidea
Family: Boettgerillidae
Genus: Boettgerilla
Species: B. compressa
Binomial name
Boettgerilla compressa
Simroth, 1910[1]

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.[1][2][3]

Distribution

The type locality of Boettgerilla compressa is "Werchnaja Zebelda" (Verkhnyaya Tzebelda), Abkhazia.[1][4]

Another known locality is the ruins of Bagrat Castle near Kutaisi in Georgia.[4]

Description

The body of this slug is narrow. The slug has a length of about 2 cm.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Simroth H. (1910). "Kaukasische und asiatische Limaciden und Raublungenschnecken". Ezhegodnik. Zoologicheskago Muzeja Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk [Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg] 15: 499-560, Pl. VI-VIII. page 530-533, Plate VII, figure 29-33.
  2. (Polish) Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 136.
  3. "Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.
  4. 1 2 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.


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