Terrestrial molluscs of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador,&nbsp;Canada. Part 1: Boettgerillidae

John E. Maunder; Ronald G. Noseworthy; John M. C. Hutchinson; Heike Reise

doi:10.15560/13.4.277

Check List 13(4): 277-284, doi: 10.15560/13.4.277

Terrestrial molluscs of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Part 1: Boettgerillidae

John E. Maunder^‡, Ronald G. Noseworthy^§, John M. C. Hutchinson^|, Heike Reise^|

‡ Pouch Cove, Canada§ Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea, South| Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany

Corresponding author: John E. Maunder ( jem@nl.rogers.com )

Academic editor: Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Maunder, JE, Noseworthy RG, Hutchinson JMC, Reise H (2017) Terrestrial molluscs of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Part 1: Boettgerillidae. Check List 13(4): 277-284. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.277

Abstract

The family Boettgerillidae, represented by the Eurasian slug Boettgerilla pallens Simroth, 1912, is first recorded for Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada—a range extension of almost exactly 5000 km within the Americas. Compiled, within an appendix, to provide a national perspective for the Newfoundland and Labrador record, are 13 previously unpublished B. pallens records from British Columbia, Canada. Incidentally recorded is the second eastern Canadian outdoor occurrence of the European slug Deroceras invadens. This paper is the first in a series that will treat all of the terrestrial molluscs of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Keywords

Boettgerilla pallens; Deroceras invadens; distribution; first record; history of collecting; North America; British Columbia