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Boettgerilla

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.

Boettgerilla is the only genus in the family Boettgerillidae. This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Boettgerillidae Van Goethem, 1972 is not an available name, because it has no diagnosis.

Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western Palearctic.

There are two species in the genus Boettgerilla and they include:

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

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.

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