Biology:Boettgerilla compressa
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Boettgerilla compressa | |
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| A 1910 drawing of preserved specimens of Boettgerilla compressa from the original description by Heinrich Simroth | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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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
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| Species: | B. compressa
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| Binomial name | |
| Boettgerilla compressa Simroth, 1910[1]
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Boettgerilla compressa is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Boettgerillidae.
Boettgerilla compressa is the type species of the genus Boettgerilla.[1][2][3]
Distribution
The type locality of Boettgerilla compressa is Tsebelda, Abkhazia.[1][4] Another known locality is the environs of the Bagrati Cathedral near Kutaisi in Georgia.[4]
Description
The body of this slug is narrow. The slug has a length of about 2 cm.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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.
- ↑ (in Polish) Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 136.
- ↑ "Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
Wikidata ☰ Q9175028 entry
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