Boettgerilla

Boettgerilla
Boettgerilla pallens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Limacoidea
Family:	Boettgerillidae Wiktor & I. M. Likharev, 1979[1]
Genus:	Boettgerilla Simroth, 1910[2]
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.

Taxonomy

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

Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western Palearctic.[6]

Species

There are two[1][3] species in the genus Boettgerilla and they include:

• Boettgerilla compressa Simroth, 1910 - type species[2][3][7]
• Boettgerilla pallens Simroth, 1912

Cladogram

A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[6]

limacoid clade	Staffordioidea Staffordiidae Dyakioidea Dyakiidae Gastrodontoidea Pristilomatidae Chronidae Euconulidae Trochomorphidae Gastrodontidae Oxychilidae Parmacelloidea Trigonochlamydidae Parmacellidae Milacidae Zonitoidea Zonitidae Helicarionoidea Helicarionidae Ariophantidae Urocyclidae Limacoidea Vitrinidae Boettgerillidae Limacidae Agriolimacidae

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.

References

1. (in German) Wiktor A. & Likharev I. M. (1979). "Phylogenetische Probleme bei Nacktschnecken aus den Familien Limacidae und Milacidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)". Malacologia 18: 123-132.
2. 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.
3. (in Polish) Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 134-137.
4. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
5. Goethem J. van (1972). "Contribution à l'étude de Boettgerilla vermiformis Wiktor, 1959 (Mollusca Pulmonata)". Bulletins de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 48(14): 1-16. page 14.
6. Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
7. "Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.

Further reading

• (in German) Schmid G. (1963). "Zur Verbreitung und Anatomie der Gattung Boettgerilla". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 92: 215-225.

External links

• British Non-marine Molluscs: Families