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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
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata

Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Pythiinae
Genus: Pythia
Species: P. cecillei
Binomial name
Pythia cecillei
(Philippi, 1847)

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata

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

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

This species occurs in Japan.

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



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