Cecilioides acicula
| Cecilioides acicula | |
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| Two fresh shells of Cecilioides acicula, the scale bar is in millimeters | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Ferussaciidae |
| Genus: | Cecilioides |
| Subgenus: | Cecilioides |
| Species: | C. acicula |
| Binomial name | |
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Cecilioides acicula (O. F. Müller, 1774) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Caecilianella acicula (Müller) |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Caecilianella acicula (Müller)
Cecilioides acicula, common name the "blind snail" or "blind awlsnail", is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae.
This is a subterranean species.
This animal is white, there are two pairs of tentacles, but eyes are lacking.
The shell is long and narrow, up to a maximum of 5.5 mm and a width of 1.2 mm. The shell is colorless, glassy and transparent when it is fresh, a somewhat opaque milky-white when it is not fresh.
The habitat of this species is underground, quite some distance below the surface. It is more common in soils with a high level of calcium.
Because of its subterranean habitat, this species is often found only as an empty shell, in such places as mole hills, ant hills, or in flood debris of rivers.
Distribution of this species is central European and southern European.
This species native range is Mediterranean Europe, specifically (Spain, …), Western Europe (Great Britain and Ireland,Netherlands, …) and Central Europe (Czech Republic - least concern (LC),Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine …).
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