Parmacellilla
Genus of gastropod
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Parmacellilla filipowitschi is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.
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| Drawing of Parmacellilla filipowitschi from the type description. Head in on the right. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Trigonochlamydidae |
| Subfamily: | Parmacellillinae Hesse, 1926[1] |
| Genus: | Parmacellilla Simroth, 1910[2] |
| Species: | P. filipowitschi |
| Binomial name | |
| Parmacellilla filipowitschi Simroth, 1910[2] | |
Parmacellilla filipowitschi is the only species in the genus Parmacellilla,[3] which in turn is the only genus in the subfamily Parmacellillinae.[4]
The generic name Parmacellilla is based on its similarity to the genus Parmacella.[2] The specific name filipowitschi is in honor of E. M. Filipowitsch, who collected the type specimen in 1905.[2]
