Kootenaia, Leonard, William P., Chichester, Lyle, Baugh, Jim & Wilke, Thomas, 2003

Leonard, William P., Chichester, Lyle, Baugh, Jim & Wilke, Thomas, 2003, Kootenaia burkei, a new genus and species of slug from northern Idaho, United States (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Arionidae), Zootaxa 355, pp. 1-16 : 5-6

Kootenaia new genus

Type Species: Kootenaia burkei new species

Etymology: The generic name honors the Kootenai Indians, who historically occupied territories in parts of Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia, and who now live on the Flathead and Bonner’s Ferry reservations in Montana and Idaho and on several small reserves in British Columbia.

Diagnosis: Distinct from any other known arionid genus by the absence of a free epiphallus.

Characters and character­states

*shell with a distinct apex, **penial loop occasionally hidden by atrial wall, ***indistinct in some individuals