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Boettgerilla

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Boettgerilla
Boettgerilla pallens
Scientific classification
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Family:
Boettgerillidae

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

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

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

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

Taxonomy

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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

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Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western Palearctic.[6]

Species

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

Cladogram

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

 limacoid clade 

See also

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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.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d (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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d (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. ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 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. ^ a b 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.

Further reading

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  • (in German) Schmid G. (1963). "Zur Verbreitung und Anatomie der Gattung Boettgerilla". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 92: 215-225.
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