Boettgerilla compressa
| Boettgerilla compressa | |
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| 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 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.
- ↑ (Polish) Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 136.
- ↑ "Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.
- 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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