Boreolestes sylvestris

Boreolestes sylvestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Trigonochlamydidae
Subfamily: Trigonochlamydinae
Genus: Boreolestes
Species: B. sylvestris
Binomial name
Boreolestes sylvestris
Kijashko in Schileyko & Kijashko, 1999[1]

Boreolestes sylvestris is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug, a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Trigonochlamydidae.

Distribution

The type locality for Boreolestes sylvestris is 6 km from Ghooseriple at the Molchepa riverside in North-Western Caucasus,[2] Republic of Adygea, Russia.

The distribution of Boreolestes sylvestris includes the upper part of the Belaya River basin.[2]

References

  1. Schileyko A. A. & Kijashko P. V. (1999). "Boreolestes gen. nov., a new genus of carnivorous slugs from Western Caucasus, and some considerations on the phylogeny of Trigonochlamydidae (Pulmonata)". Ruthenica 9(1): 39-46.
  2. 1 2 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.


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