- Cecilioides
Taxobox
name = "Cecilioides"
image_caption = Two fresh shells of "Cecilioides acicula " The scale bar is in millimeters
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Gastropoda
ordo =Stylommatophora
familia =Ferussaciidae
genus = "Cecilioides"
genus_authority = Férussac, 1814"Cecilioides" is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails,
terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk s in the familyFerussaciidae .Most of the species in this genus live some distance underground. They are usually blind. Because of their subterranean habitat, they can be hard to find alive.
pecies within the genus "Cecilioides"
* "
Cecilioides acicula " (Müller, 1774)
* "Cecilioides connollyi " Tomlin, 1943
* "Cecilioides eulima " (Lowe, 1854)
* "Cecilioides nyctelia " (Bourguignat, 1856)
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