| Cecilioides acicula | |
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| Two fresh shells of Cecilioides acicula, the scale bar is in millimeters | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Ferussaciidae |
| Genus: | Cecilioides |
| Species: | C. acicula
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| Binomial name | |
| Cecilioides acicula (O. F. Müller, 1774)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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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.[2]
This is a subterranean species.
- ^ Müller, O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. - pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).
- ^ Marshall, B. (2014). "Ceciliodes acicula (O. F. Müller, 1774)". World Register of Marine Species at. Retrieved 6 November 2014.