Pythia cecillii

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Pythia cecillii
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A live but retracted individual of Pythia cecillii.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Ellobiida
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Pythia
Species:
P. cecillii
Binomial name
Pythia cecillii
(Philippi, 1847)
Synonyms
  • Pythia cecillei(Philippi, 1847) (unjustified emendation to...)
  • Scarabus cecilliiPhilippi, 1847 (original combination)

Pythia cecillii is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Ellobiidae. [1]

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Apertual and abapertural view of a shell of Pythia cecillii. Okihirashiinomi0904.jpg
Apertual and abapertural view of a shell of Pythia cecillii.

The specific name cecillii is in honor of the French admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille.

Distribution

This species occurs in Japan.

It is critically endangered and endangered (CR+EN) in Japan. [2]

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References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pythia cecillii (Philippi, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1468332 on 2022-03-21
  2. "日本のレッドデータ検索システム" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-10-01.. accessed 1 October 2009