Boettgerilla compressa

Boettgerilla compressa
A 1910 drawing of preserved specimens of Boettgerilla compressa from the original description by Heinrich Simroth
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
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 Tsebelda, Abkhazia. ^{[1] [4]} Another known locality is the environs of the Bagrati Cathedral 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. 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.
2. (in Polish) Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 136.
3. "Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.
4. 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