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Taxonomy
Family:
FERUSSACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Achatinina (Suborder)
> Achatinoidea (Superfamily)
> Ferussaciidae (Family)
> Cecilioides (Genus)
> acicula (Species)
Images: Cecilioides acicula (O.F. Müller, 1774)
Collected in May 2005, Waiwera Holiday Park, Waiwera, Auckland, NZ. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family:
FERUSSACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Achatinina (Suborder)
> Achatinoidea (Superfamily)
> Ferussaciidae (Family)
> Cecilioides (Genus)
> acicula (Species)
Details: Cecilioides acicula (O.F. Müller, 1774)
Size/Grows to:
Height 4.5mm, Width 1.2mm
Distribution:
North Island and northern South Island. Also Europe, Mediterranean, Africa, Central Asia, U.S.A. and Australia
Geographical Range:
L.N.S.
Notes:
Land
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Barker, G.M. 1999 Naturalised Terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Fauna of New Zealand, Manaaki Whenua Press (p.59)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.449)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil