Boreolestes is a genus of predatory air-breathing land slugs, shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trigonochlamydidae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Genus: | Boreolestes Schileyko & Kijashko, 1999[1]
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The generic name Boreolestes contains the suffix -lestes, that means "robber".[2]
Species
editThere are two species within the genus Boreolestes and they include:
- Boreolestes likharevi Schileyko & Kijashko, 1999 - type species[3]
- Boreolestes sylvestris Kijashko in Schileyko & Kijashko, 1999[3]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Suvorov A. N. (2003). "A new species and genus of carnivorous slugs (Pulmonata Trigonochlamydidae) from West Transcaucasia". Ruthenica 13: 149-152. abstract.
- ^ a b 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. Archived 2018-12-22 at the Wayback Machine