Boettgerilla Temporal range: Recent[1]
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Boettgerilla pallens | |
Scientific classification | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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Family: | Boettgerillidae Wiktor & I. M. Likharev, 1979[1]
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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.
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 of Boettgerillidae include western Palearctic.[6]
There are two[1][3] species in the genus Boettgerilla and they include:
A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[6]