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Parmacellilla filipowitschi
Drawing of Parmacellilla filipowitschi from the type description. Head in on the right.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Parmacelloidea
Family:	Trigonochlamydidae
Subfamily:	Parmacellillinae Hesse, 1926
Genus:	Parmacellilla Simroth, 1910
Species:	P. filipowitschi
Binomial name
Parmacellilla filipowitschi Simroth, 1910

Parmacellilla filipowitschi is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.

Parmacellilla filipowitschi is the only species in the genus Parmacellilla, which in turn is the only genus in the subfamily Parmacellillinae.

The generic name Parmacellilla is based on its similarity to the genus Parmacella. The specific name filipowitschi is in honor of E. M. Filipowitsch, who collected the type specimen in 1905.

Distribution

The type locality is Gorgan (also known as Astrabad) in Iran.

References

1. (in German) Hesse P. (1926). "Die Nacktschnecken der palearktischen Region". Abhandlungen des Archiv für Molluskenkunde 2(1): 1-152. page 47 and page 54. plates 1-2.
2. ^ (in German) Simroth H. (1910). "Kaukasische und asiatische Limaciden und Raublungenschnecken". Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg) 15: 499-560. page 536-547. Table VIII, figure 38-50.

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