title: Boettgerilla
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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, 2005).
  
  Boettgerillidae Van Goethem, 1972 is not an available name, because it has no diagnosis.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Distribution of Boettgerillidae include western Palearctic.
  
  ## Species
  
  There are two species in the genus Boettgerilla and they include:
  
  * Boettgerilla compressa Simroth, 1910 - type species
  * Boettgerilla pallens Simroth, 1912
  
  ## Cladogram
  
  A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:
  
  