''Boettgerilla compressa'' is a

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of air-breathing land

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, a

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in the family

Boettgerillidae ''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 ...

. ''Boettgerilla compressa'' is the

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of the genus ''Boettgerilla''. Wiktor A. (1989). ''Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)''. Fauna Poloniae 12,

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, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 136."Genus taxon summary for ''Boettgerilla''"

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Distribution

The type locality of ''Boettgerilla compressa'' is Tsebelda,

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. Another known locality is the environs of the

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near

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Description

The body of this slug is narrow. The slug has a length of about 2 cm.

References

Boettgerillidae Gastropods described in 1910 {{Heterobranchia-stub