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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boettgerilla is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Boettgerillidae.
| Boettgerilla | |
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| Boettgerilla pallens | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Family: | Boettgerillidae Wiktor & I. M. Likharev, 1979[1] |
| Genus: | Boettgerilla |
| Diversity[1][3] | |
| 1 genus, 2 species | |
The generic name Boettgerilla is named after the German malacologist Oskar Boettger.
Boettgerilla is the only genus in the family Boettgerillidae.[1][3] This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[4]
Boettgerillidae Van Goethem, 1972[5] is not an available name, because it has no diagnosis.[4]
Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western Palearctic.[6]
There are two[1][3] species in the genus Boettgerilla and they include:
A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[6]
This genus of slugs should not be confused with a genus of door snails that has a similar name: Boettgeria. Both genera were named in honor of Caesar Rudolf Boettger.
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