Caecidae

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Caecum auriculatum 001.jpg
Caecum auriculatum de Folin, 1868 , a snail from the family Caecidae; Sicily

Illustrated Index of British Shells Plate 15.jpg
Illustrated Index of British Shells. Plate XV.

Fig.	Name in text	Accepted name (2013)
1	Turritella cornea Lamarck	Turritella cornea
2, 3	Turritella communis Risso	Turritella communis
4	Aporrhais pes-pelicani Linnaeus	Aporrhais pespelecani
5	Aporrhais pes-carbonis Brongniart	Aporrhais serresianus
6	Cæcum trachea Montagu	Caecum trachea
7	Cæcum glabrum Montagu	Caecum glabrum
8	Cerithium reticulatum Costa	Bittium reticulatum
9	Cerithium metaxa Delle Chiaje	Metaxia metaxa
10	Cerithium adversum Montagu	Marshallora adversa
11	Cerithiopsis tuberculare Montagu	Cerithiopsis tubercularis
12	Cerithiopsis Clarkii Hanley	Cerithiopsis tubercularis
13	Cerithiopsis nivea Jeffreys	(not matched)
14	Cerithiopsis metula Lovén	Cerithiella metula
15	Cerithiopsis pulchella Jeffreys	Cerithiopsis jeffreysi
16	Scalaria communis Lamarck	Epitonium clathrus
17	Scalaria grœnlandica Chemnitz	Boreoscala greenlandica
18	Scalaria Turtonis Turton	Epitonium turtonis
19	Scalaria Trevelyana Leach	Epitonium trevelyanum
20	Scalaria clathratula Montagu	Epitonium clathratulum
21	Stylifer Turtoni Broderip	Pelseneeria stylifera
22	Eulima polita Linnaeus	Melanella polita
23	Eulima distorta Deshayes	Melanella pyramidalis
24	Eulima stenostoma Jeffreys	Haliella stenostoma
25	Eulima subulata Donovan	Eulima glabra
26	Eulima bilineata Alder	Eulima bilineata

Caecum subannulatum 001.jpg
Caecum subannulatum de Folin, 1870, a snail from the family Caecidae; Sicily

Caecum trachea 001.jpg
Caecum trachea (Montagu, 1803) , family Caecidae; Sicily

Caecum glabrum (protoconch).jpg
© Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0
Juvenile of a small gastropod showing the protoconch which will soon be shed and replaced by a calcareous plug. Taken with a Leica DFC 490 camera mounted on a Leica M205C binocular microscope. From the Buitenratel Bank in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
Length = ~520 µm

Villous Adenoma (362868478).jpg
Författare/Upphovsman: Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA, Licens: CC BY 2.0

This large villous adenoma carpets the cecum of a right colectomy specimen. The fixed specimen is immersed in tapwater to display the delicate filigree of the villous surface pattern.

To view another (better) presentation of this image, check out the version on the Website of Objective Pathology.

Pathological and histological images courtesy of Ed Uthman at flickr.

Caecum glabrum.jpg
© Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0
A small gastropod, taken with a Leica DFC 490 camera mounted on a Leica M205C binocular microscope. From the North Sea.
Length = ~3 mm