Biology:Pythia cecillei

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Pythia cecillei
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A live but retracted individual of Pythia cecillei.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Ellobioidea
Family:
Subfamily:
Pythiinae
Genus:
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

  1. "Archived copy" (in ja). Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20110713124005/http://www.jpnrdb.com/search.php?mode=map&q=110504140010676. Retrieved 2009-10-01. . accessed 1 October 2009

Wikidata ☰ Q1057496 entry