Boettgerilla

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Boettgerilla
Temporal range: Recent [1]
Boettgerilla pallens 2.jpg
Boettgerilla pallens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Family:
Boettgerillidae

Wiktor & I. M. Likharev, 1979 [1]
Genus:
Boettgerilla

Simroth, 1910 [2]
Diversity [1] [3]
1 genus, 2 species

Boettgerilla is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Boettgerillidae.

Contents

The generic name Boettgerilla is named after the German malacologist Oskar Boettger.

Taxonomy

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

Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western Palearctic. [6]

Species

There are two [1] [3] species in the genus Boettgerilla and they include:

Cladogram

A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade: [6]

  limacoid clade  
  Staffordioidea  

Staffordiidae

  Dyakioidea  

Dyakiidae

  Gastrodontoidea  

Pristilomatidae

Chronidae

Euconulidae

Trochomorphidae

Gastrodontidae

Oxychilidae

  Parmacelloidea  

Trigonochlamydidae

Parmacellidae

Milacidae

  Zonitoidea  

Zonitidae

  Helicarionoidea  

Helicarionidae

Ariophantidae

Urocyclidae

  Limacoidea  

Vitrinidae

Boettgerillidae

Limacidae

Agriolimacidae

See also

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.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stylommatophora</span> Order of gastropods

Stylommatophora is an order of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon includes most land snails and slugs.

<i>Bielzia</i> Species of gastropod

Bielzia coerulans, commonly known as the Carpathian blue slug or simply the blue slug, is a species of very large land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Athoracophoridae</span> Family of gastropods

Athoracophoridae, common name the leaf-veined slugs, are a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora, the stalk-eyed snails and slugs. Many of the species have an attractive pattern on their dorsal surface which resembles the veins in a leaf, hence the common name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agriolimacidae</span> Family of gastropods

Agriolimacidae is a family of small and medium-sized land slugs, or shell-less snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Limacoidea</span> Superfamily of gastropods

Limacoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of medium-sized to large, air-breathing land slugs and snails. They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Limacidae</span> Family of keelback slugs

Limacidae, also known by their common name the keelback slugs, are a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Limacoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Parmacellidae</span> Family of gastropods

Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trigonochlamydidae</span> Family of gastropods

Trigonochlamydidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the clade Eupulmonata.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milacidae</span> Family of gastropods

Milacidae is a family of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs. These are shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Parmacelloidea.

<i>Boettgerilla pallens</i> Species of gastropod

Boettgerilla pallens, common name the worm slug, is a European species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Boettgerillidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sphincterochilidae</span> Family of gastropods

Sphincterochilidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cepolidae (gastropod)</span> Family of gastropods

Cepolidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ariophantidae</span> Family of gastropods

Ariophantidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Urocyclidae</span> Family of gastropods

Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea,.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dyakiidae</span> Family of gastropods

Dyakiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helicarionoidea</span> Superfamily of gastropods

Helicarionoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Limacoidei.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Limacoidei</span> Group of molluscs

The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina

Buettneria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocyclidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Limacinae</span> Subfamily of gastropods

Limacinae are a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 (in German) Wiktor A. & Likharev I. M. (1979). "Phylogenetische Probleme bei Nacktschnecken aus den Familien Limacidae und Milacidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)". Malacologia 18: 123-132.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 (in Polish) Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 134-137.
  4. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  5. Goethem J. van (1972). "Contribution à l'étude de Boettgerilla vermiformis Wiktor, 1959 (Mollusca Pulmonata)". Bulletins de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 48(14): 1-16. page 14.
  6. 1 2 Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi : 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  7. "Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.

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