Pythia cecillei

Pythia cecillei is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

Apertual and abapertural view of a shell of Pythia cecillei.

Pythia cecillei
A live but retracted individual of Pythia cecillei.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily:
Ellobioidea
Family:
Ellobiidae
Subfamily:
Pythiinae
Genus:
Pythia
Species:
P. cecillei
Binomial name
Pythia cecillei
(Philippi, 1847)

The specific name cecillei 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.[1]

References
  1. "Archived copy" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-10-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). accessed 1 October 2009


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