280 ACHATINIDJi: 



Fara. : ACHATINID^. 



(Sub-fam. : Ferussaciin^.) 



Genus : 1. CECILIOIDES, Ferussac. 



Etym. : — Lat. ccccus, blind + Gr. elSos, form. 

 Type : — Genotype, Bulimus aciciila, Bruguiere. 

 {Buccimon, Helix, Bulimus, Achatina, vett. auctt.) 



1814. CeciUoides : Ferussac, Mem. Geologiques, p. 48, for 

 BuJimus acicuJa, Brug. (" Ceclionides " and 

 " Cecilioide," two other vernacular names 

 by Ferussac, were published by Blainville 

 in the Diet. Sci. Nat., v, Suppt., 1817, p. 129, 

 and vii, 1817, p. 332, respectively.] 



1826. Acicnla : Risso, Hist. Nat. Eiirop. merid., iv, p. 81, for 

 A. eburnea, n. nov. for Buccimtm aciculum, 

 Miiller. [Non Acicula Renier, 1807 (Vermes), 

 nee Hartmann, 1821.] 



1830. Cionella [pars] : Jeffreys, Trans. Linn. Soe., xvi, 

 p. 347. 



1832. Columna, Perry [pars] : Cristofori & Jan, Cat. Remm 



Nat., Sect. 11, pt. 1, p. 4. 



1833. Styloides [pars] : Fitzinger, Beitr. Landesh. Oesterr., 



iii, p. 105. 

 1838. Achat inella, subg. of Achatina [pars] : Schluter, Kurz. 



Syst. Verzeichn., p. 8. [Non Swainson, 



1828.] 

 ?1840. Belonis : Hartmann, Erd- d- Siissw.-Gasterop., p. 48, 



for B. aeicida [author not given]. 

 1841. PoJypheinns, Montf. [pars] : Villa, Disp. Conch., 



p. 19. 

 1846. Cweilioides Feruss. [em.] : Herrmannsen, hid. Gen. 



Malac. Primord., p. 150 [= Acicida, Risso]. 



[Non Cceciloides, Dumeril & Bibr., 1841 



(Rept.).] 

 1850. Glandina, Schum. [pars] : Alp.ers, Helieeen, p. 199. 



1855. Sira [pars] : A. Schmidt, Ahhandl. Naturw. Vcr. Sachsen, 



i, no. 1, pp. 5 & 42. [Cf. also Zeitschr. 

 Gesammt. Naturw. Berlin, viii, p. 140.] 



1856. Caecilianella : Bourguignat, Rev. & Mag. Zool., Ser. II, 



tom. viii, p. 378 {Amen. Malac, i, p. 213). 

 *1865. CorcilianeUa : Arango, in Poey, Repert., i, p. 128. 

 [Teste Pfeiiler, Mon. Helic. Viv., vi, p. 240.] 

 1887. Acicidina, sect, of subg. Ccecilionella of gen. Cionella : 

 Westerlund, Fauna Paldarct. Region, iii, 

 p. 175. 



