Boettgerilla

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
InfraOrdo: Limacoidei
Superfamilia: Limacoidea

Familia: Boettgerillidae
Genus: Boettgerilla

Species: B. compressa – B. pallens
Name

Boettgerilla Simroth, 1910: 530

Type Species: Boettgerilla compressa Simroth, 1910
References

Simroth, H. 1910. Kaukasische und asiatische Limaciden und Raublengenschnecken. Annu. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 15: 449–560.
Likharev, I.M., & Rammel'meier, E.S. 1962. Terrestrial mollusks of the fauna of the U.S.S.R. (Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. 43). Jerusalem, Israel Program for Scientific Translations. [4] + 574 pp.

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

(in German) Wiktor A. & Likharev I. M. (1979). "Phylogenetische Probleme bei Nacktschnecken aus den Familien Limacidae und Milacidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)". Malacologia 18: 123-132.
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 134-137.
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.
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.
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.

"Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.