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. Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 136."Genus taxon summary for Boettgerilla". AnimalBase, last modified 18 September 2008, accessed 8 September 2010.
Distribution The type locality of Boettgerilla compressa is Tsebelda, Abkhazia. Another known locality is the environs of the Bagrati Cathedral near Kutaisi in Georgia.
Description The body of this slug is narrow. The slug has a length of about 2 cm.
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