Papilloderma

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref ={{cite iucn |author=Seddon, M.B. |date=2018 |title=Papilloderma altonagai |volume=2018 |page=e.T16010A76142410 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T16010A76142410.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia

informal group Pulmonata

clade Eupulmonata

clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra

| superfamilia = Papillodermatoidea

| superfamilia_authority = Wikton, Martin & Castillejo, 1990

| familia = Papillodermatidae

| familia_authority = Wikton, Martin & Castillejo, 1990

| genus = Papilloderma

| genus_authority = Wikton, Martin & Castillejo, 1990

| species = P. altonagai

| binomial = Papilloderma altonagai

| binomial_authority = Wikton, Martin & Castillejo, 1990Wiktor A., Martin R. & Castillejo J. (1990). "A new slug family Papillodermidae with description of a new genus and species from Spain (Gastropoda, Pulmonata terrestria nuda)". Malakologische Abhandlungen Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 15(1): 1-18.

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| synonyms =

Papillodermidae

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Papilloderma altonagai is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the informal group Sigmurethra.{{Bouchet 2005}}

Papilloderma altonagai is the only species in the genus Papilloderma, which is the only genus within the family Papillodermatidae, which in turn is the only family within the superfamily Papillodermatoidea.

File:Kepaltonaga Agia Dani Blanco.jpg (2009), biologist from the University of the Basque Country.]]

The generic name Papilloderma is composed from the prefix Papillo- that means "papilla" and from the suffix -derma from Greek language that means "skin". This name was chosen because the body has conical papillae arranged in rows. The specific name altonagai is in honor of the malacologist Dr. Kepa Altonaga from the University of the Basque Country, who collected the first specimen of this species.

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| Spain

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| caption=Distribution of Papilloderma altonagai

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| Spain

| label=Puerto de Alisas

| position=right

| lat_deg = 43.1806

| lon_deg = -03.3904

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| Spain

| label=Sanctuario de Covadonga

| position=left

| lat_deg = 43.1631

| lon_deg = -05.0319

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This species is endemic to northern Spain.