Pythia cecillei
| Pythia cecillei | |
|---|---|
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| A live but retracted 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 |
| Species: | P. cecillei |
| Binomial name | |
| Pythia cecillei (Philippi, 1847) | |
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.
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
- ↑ (Japanese) . accessed 1 October 2009