Boettgerilla compressa explained

Boettgerilla 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.^{[1] [2]}

Distribution

The type locality of Boettgerilla compressa is Tsebelda, Abkhazia. Another known locality is the environs of the Bagrati Cathedral near Kutaisi in Georgia.^[3]

Description

The body of this slug is narrow. The slug has a length of about 2 cm.

Notes and References

1. Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 136.
2. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genustaxon?id=2577 "Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla"
3. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.