Boettgerilla
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Boettgerilla is a genus of air-breathing land slug
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Boettgerillidae.
The generic name Boettgerilla is named after the German malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger
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Boettgerillidae Van Goethem, 1972 is not an available name
, because it has no diagnosis.
showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade
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. Both genera were named in honor of Caesar Rudolf Boettger
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Slug
Slug is a common name that is normally applied to any gastropod mollusc that lacks a shell, has a very reduced shell, or has a small internal shell...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Boettgerillidae.
The generic name Boettgerilla is named after the German malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger
Caesar Rudolf Boettger
Caesar Rudolf Boettger was a German zoologist born in Frankfurt am Main. He specialized in malacology, particularly studying the land snails and slugs....
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Taxonomy
Boettgerilla is the only genus in the family Boettgerillidae. This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...
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Boettgerillidae Van Goethem, 1972 is not an available name
Available name
In zoology, an available name is a scientific name for a taxon of animals that has been published conforming to all the mandatory provisions of the ICZN Code for the establishment of a zoological name....
, because it has no diagnosis.
Species
There are two species in the genus Boettgerilla and they include:- Boettgerilla compressaBoettgerilla compressaBoettgerilla 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.- Distribution :...
Simroth, 1910 - type species - Boettgerilla pallensBoettgerilla pallensBoettgerilla pallens, common name the worm slug, is a European species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Boettgerillidae.- Distribution :...
Simroth, 1912
Cladogram
A cladogramCladogram
A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...
showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade
Limacoid clade
The limacoid clade is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the informal group Sigmurethra.- Distribution :...
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See also
This genus of slugs should not be confused with a genus of door snails that has a similar name: BoettgeriaBoettgeria
Boettgeria is a genus of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium....
. Both genera were named in honor of Caesar Rudolf Boettger
Caesar Rudolf Boettger
Caesar Rudolf Boettger was a German zoologist born in Frankfurt am Main. He specialized in malacology, particularly studying the land snails and slugs....
.