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Cecilioides Gokweanus
''Cecilioides'' is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ferussaciidae.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 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. ''Cecilioides acicula'' has a very long and slim shell with a dull point at the end. While the animal is alive, the shell is thin, shiny, see-through, and doesn't have any colour. However, after the animal dies, the shell turns white and no longer lets light through. The inside spiral part of the shell stops ...
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Cecilioides Acicula
''Cecilioides acicula'', common name the "blind snail" or "blind awlsnail", is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae. This is a subterranean species. Description This animal is white, there are two pairs of tentacles, but eyes are lacking.Adam, W. 1960. ''Mollusques. Faune de Belgique, Tome 1, mollusques terrestres et dulcicoles.'' Bruxelles: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 402 pp., 4 pl. The gastropod shell, shell is long and narrow, up to a maximum of 5.5 mm and a width of 1.2 mm.M.P. Kerney and R.A.D. Cameron, 1979, ''A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Britain and North-west Europe''. Collins, London, The shell is colorless, glassy and transparent when it is fresh, a somewhat opaque milky-white when it is not fresh. Habitat The habitat of this species is underground, quite some distance below the surface. It is more common in Soil zool ...
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Cecilioides Caledonica
''Cecilioides'' is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ferussaciidae.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 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. ''Cecilioides acicula'' has a very long and slim shell with a dull point at the end. While the animal is alive, the shell is thin, shiny, see-through, and doesn't have any colour. However, after the animal dies, the shell turns white and no longer lets light through. The inside spiral part of the shell stops suddenly when it reach ...
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Cecilioides Gokweanus
''Cecilioides'' is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ferussaciidae.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 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. ''Cecilioides acicula'' has a very long and slim shell with a dull point at the end. While the animal is alive, the shell is thin, shiny, see-through, and doesn't have any colour. However, after the animal dies, the shell turns white and no longer lets light through. The inside spiral part of the shell stops ...
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Cecilioides Eulima
''Cecilioides eulima'' is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae. This species is endemic to Madeira Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of ..., Portugal. References Ferussaciidae Gastropods described in 1854 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Ferussaciidae-stub ...
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Cecilioides Eucharista
''Cecilioides'' is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ferussaciidae.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 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. ''Cecilioides acicula'' has a very long and slim shell with a dull point at the end. While the animal is alive, the shell is thin, shiny, see-through, and doesn't have any colour. However, after the animal dies, the shell turns white and no longer lets light through. The inside spiral part of the shell stops suddenly when it reach ...
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