Boettgerilla

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

Boettgerilla
Temporal range: Recent[1]
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

Diversity[1][3]
1 genus, 2 species

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:

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. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 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.
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