Boettgerilla compressa

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Boettgerilla compressa
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A 1910 drawing of preserved specimens of Boettgerilla compressa from the original description by Heinrich Simroth
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
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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.

Contents

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]

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References

  1. 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.
  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. 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. Archived 2018-12-22 at the Wayback Machine