Boettgeria crispa

Boettgeria crispa
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Boettgeria
Species: B. crispa
Binomial name
Boettgeria crispa
(Lowe, 1831)

Boettgeria crispa is a species of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod 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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