''Boettgerilla'' is a genus of air-breathing land
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced ...
s,
terrestrial 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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the family Boettgerillidae.
The generic name ''Boettgerilla'' is named after the German
malacologist
Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...
Oskar Boettger
Oskar Boettger (; 31 March 1844 – 25 September 1910) was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976).
From 1863 to 1866 he studied at the Bergakademie ...
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Taxonomy
''Boettgerilla'' is the only genus in the family Boettgerillidae.
[ Wiktor A. (1989). ''Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)''. Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 134-137.] This family has no subfamilies (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Boettgerillidae
Van Goethem, 1972 is not an
available name
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, because it has no diagnosis.
Distribution
Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
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Species
There are two
species in the genus ''Boettgerilla'' and they include:
* ''
Boettgerilla compressa
''Boettgerilla compressa'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Boettgerillidae.
''Boettgerilla compressa'' is the type species of the genus ''Boettgerilla''. Wikt ...
'' Simroth, 1910 - type species
AnimalBase
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, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.
* '' Boettgerilla pallens'' Simroth, 1912
Cladogram
A cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not s ...
showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". '' Journal of Biogeography'' 27(2): 379-390. ]
JSTOR
See also
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
Caesar Rudolf Boettger (20 May 1888 – 8 September 1976) was a German zoologist born in Frankfurt am Main. He specialized in malacology, particularly studying the land snails and slugs.
In 1912 he obtained his PhD from the University of ...
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References
Further reading
* Schmid G. (1963). "Zur Verbreitung und Anatomie der Gattung ''Boettgerilla''". ''Archiv für Molluskenkunde'' 92: 215-225.
External links
British Non-marine Molluscs: Families
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Boettgerillidae
Gastropod genera