Cecilioides petitiana

Cecilioides petitiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae.

Cecilioides petitiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Achatinoidea
Family:
Ferussaciidae
Genus:
Cecilioides
Subgenus:
Cecilioides
Species:
C. petitiana
Binomial name
Cecilioides petitiana
(Benoit, 1862)
Synonyms

Cecilioides petitianus[1]

This is a subterranean species.

Distribution

References
  1. http://www.mollbase.org/list/index.php?aktion=zeige_taxon&id=590 accessed 8 July 2009
  2. Horsák M. & Čejka T. (2008). "Cecilioides petitiana in Slovakia – a second record after more than 60 years". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 7: 15-16.
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