Boettgerilla

Boettgerilla is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Boettgerillidae.

Boettgerilla
Boettgerilla pallens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Limacoidea
Family:	Boettgerillidae Wiktor & I. M. Likharev, 1979[1]
Genus:	Boettgerilla Simroth, 1910[2]

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.