Cecilioides
| Cecilioides | |
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| Two fresh shells of Cecilioides acicula The scale bar is in millimeters | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
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| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Ferussaciidae |
| Genus: | Cecilioides Férussac, 1814[1] |
| Type species | |
| Buccinum acicula O. F. Müller, 1774
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| Synonyms | |
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Cecilioides is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ferussaciidae. [2]
Most of the species in this genus live some distance underground. They are usually blind. Because of their subterranean habitat and their small size, they can be difficult to find alive.
When fresh, the shells are transparent. After they have been empty some time in the soil, they usually become an opaque milky-white.
Species[]
Species within this genus include:
- Cecilioides acicula (Müller, 1774)
- † (Sandberger, 1872)
- (Benoit, 1862)
- (Ancey, 1888)
- (Guilding in Swainson, 1840)[3]
- (Reeve, 1850)
- (Maltzan, 1886)
- Gude, 1914 [4]
- (Crosse, 1880)
- (Crosse, 1867)
- (Connolly, 1923)
- (Maltzan, 1886)
- Cecilioides connollyi Tomlin, 1943
- Dourson, Caldwell & Dourson, 2018
- (Bourguignat, 1864)
- Cecilioides eulima (Lowe, 1854)
- (O. Boettger, 1870)
- † (Bourguignat, 1856)
- (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- (C. B. Adams, 1845)[3]
- (Paladilhe, 1872)
- (Strobel, 1855)
- A. J. Wagner, 1914
- Pilsbry, 1907
- Dartevelle & Venmans, 1951
- de Winter, 1990
- (H. Adams, 1868)
- † (Paladilhe, 1875)
- Cecilioides nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1856)
- Connolly, 1939
- Cecilioides petitiana (Benoit, 1862)
- (O. Boettger, 1879)
- (Bourguignat, 1856)
- † Pickford, 2009
- †Cecilioides sommeri (Ferreira & Coelho, 1971)[5]
- Dupuis, 1923
- (Benoit, 1862)
- (Preston, 1911)
- (Bourguignat, 1856)
- (Strobel, 1855)
- (Preston, 1911)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cecilioides consobrina (d’Orbigny, 1842):[3] synonym of (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- † Cecilioides pseudocylichna (De Stefani, 1880): synonym of † De Stefani, 1880
References[]
- ^ Férussac A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de (1814). Mémoires géologiques sur les terreins formés sous l'eau douce par les débris fossiles des mollusques vivant sur la terre ou dans l'eau non salée. pp. 1-76. Paris.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cecilioides A. Férussac, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819997 on 2020-07-30
- ^ a b c "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ^ Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes de (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 53 (2): 5–46. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links[]
- Férussac, A.E.J.P.F. d'Audebard de. (1814). Mémoires géologiques sur les terreins formés sous l'eau douce par les débris fossiles des mollusques vivant sur la terre ou dans l'eau non salée. Paris: Poulet. 76 pp
- Hartmann, J.D.W. (1840-1844). Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten, i-xx, 1-36, pl. 1-2 [30-06-1840; 37-116, pl. 13-36 [1841]; 117-156, pl. 37-60 [1842]; 157-204, pl. 61-72 [1843]; 205-227, pl. 73-84 [1844]. St. Gallen]
- Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes, vol. 4. Paris: Levrault. vii + 439 pp., pls 1-12
- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp.
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- Ferussaciidae
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