''Boettgeria'' is a

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of small, very elongate, air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the family

Clausiliidae Clausiliidae, also known by the common name door snails, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small, very elongate, mostly Gastropod shell#Chirality in gastropods, left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terre ...

, the door snails, all of which have a

clausilium The clausilium is a calcareous anatomical structure which is found in one group of air-breathing land snails: terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The clausilium is one part of the clausilial appar ...

. This genus of door snails should not be confused with a genus of slugs that has a similar name: ''

Boettgerilla ''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 ''Boettgerilla' ...

'' Simroth, 1910.

Species

Species within the genus ''Boettgeria'' include

* ''

Boettgeria crispa ''Boettgeria'' is a genus of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium. This genus of door snails s ...

'' (Lowe, 1831) * '' Boettgeria deltostoma'' (Lowe, 1831) * '' Boettgeria depauperata'' (Lowe, 1831) * '' Boettgeria exigua'' (Lowe, 1831) * '' Boettgeria jensi'' Neubert & Groh, 1998 * '' Boettgeria lorenziana'' Groh & Hemmen, 1984 * '' Boettgeria lowei'' Groh & Hemmen, 1984 * '' Boettgeria obesiuscula'' (Lowe, 1863)

References

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