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(Original description) The shell is perforate, dextral, globose, very thin, and transparent, with a uniform dull Brussels-brown coloration and no deciduous cuticle. The spire is short, obliquely triangular, with slightly convex outlines. The whorls of the protoconch are convex, with the first being smooth and increasing rapidly in size.
Underside creamy-white, markings dull orange. Forewing with a thin line at the end of the cell; a discal band, commencing at the costa, with four thin annular marks, the first three spots outwardly oblique, the fourth straight below the third, the band continued in very thin lunules almost straight down to the sub-median vein, a sub-marginal ...
A spot in 9, a subbasal and a central (very small) in 7, one at extreme base of 5, and a double spot at base of 4, two in cell before middle, three or four discal spots progressively larger in size, in 6, 5, 4, and 3, a large spot at base of 2 followed by a spot in 1c and lb, these three nearly in a straight line, but that in 1c slightly nearer ...
The peristome is thin, blackish on the inside, and only slightly thickened. The columellar fold is thin and delicate. The shell lacks the conspicuously patched appearance typical of Amastra inflata and Amastra elliptica. However, under magnification, some small, dull streaks may be observed on its otherwise glossy surface, which generally lacks ...
A fleshy, swollen stem base, usually underground and functioning in the storage of food reserves, with buds naked or covered by very thin scales; a type of rootstock. cormel A small corm (or cormlet), forming at the base of a growing larger corm. [30] corneous Horny in texture; stiff and hard, but somewhat tough. Compare coriaceous. corolla
The thin operculum is horny, ovate, elongated, with very fine elements and oblique folds and folds oblique. The shell lacks an epidermis. [3] [4] [5] The shells are generally quite small, of an elegant form, elongated, marked with more or less deep spots. The general color of the body of these mollusca, is of a dull white.
The two others are small, oblique, and parallel. The outer lip is arcuated, thin, sharp and slightly convex. Juvenile var. tesselatus. Young specimens of this species are very slightly striated, and of a reddish color. Undulating lines and brown spots, distributed here and there, cover the shell.
Cecilioides acicula has a very long and slim shell with a dull point at the end. While the animal is alive, the shell is thin, shiny, see-through, and doesn't have any colour. While the animal is alive, the shell is thin, shiny, see-through, and doesn't have any colour.