Pythia cecillii

Pythia cecillii
	A live but retracted individual of Pythia cecillii.
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. cecillii
Binomial name
	Pythia cecillii; (Philippi, 1847)
Synonyms
	Pythia cecillei (Philippi, 1847) (unjustified emendation to...); Scarabus cecillii Philippi, 1847 (original combination);

Pythia cecillii is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.^[1]

The specific name cecillii 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.^[2]

^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pythia cecillii (Philippi, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1468332 on 2022-03-21
^ "日本のレッドデータ検索システム" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-10-01.. accessed 1 October 2009

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