| Pythia | |
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| A live individual of Pythia cecillei. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pythiinae |
| Genus: | Pythia Röding, 1798 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Phytia (Incorrect subsequent spelling) |
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Pythia is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. [1]
Pythia is a largely terrestrial genus commonly found in the Indo-Pacific in mangroves from above high tide to further inland. It is readily differentiated within the family by its dorso-ventrally flattened shell and heavily dentate aperture. Plate gave the first account of Pythia scarabaeus in 1897. [2]
Pythia is the type genus of the subfamily Pythiinae.
Species in the genus Pythia include: