| 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 | |
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.
Distribution
The type locality of Boettgerilla compressa is Tsebelda, Abkhazia. Another known locality is the environs of the Bagrati Cathedral near Kutaisi in Georgia.
Description
The body of this slug is narrow. The slug has a length of about 2 cm.
References
- ^ Simroth H. (1910). "Kaukasische und asiatische Limaciden und Raublungenschnecken". Ezhegodnik. Zoologicheskago Muzeja Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 15: 499-560, Pl. VI-VIII. page 530-533, Plate VII, figure 29-33.
- (in 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.
- ^ 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. Archived 2018-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
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| Boettgerilla compressa | |
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