Pythia (gastropod)
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Pythia is a genus
of small air-breathing salt marsh
snail
s, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
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Pythia is the type genus
of the subfamily Pythiinae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small air-breathing salt marsh
Salt marsh
A salt marsh is an environment in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and salt water or brackish water, it is dominated by dense stands of halophytic plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh...
snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata. This is the only family in the superfamily Ellobioidea, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)....
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Pythia is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
of the subfamily Pythiinae.
Species
Species in the genus Pythia include:- Pythia cecilleiPythia cecilleiPythia 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.- Distribution :...
- Pythia nana
- Pythia pachyodon
- Pythia pantherina
- Pythia plicata (Férussac, A.E.J. de, 1821)
- Pythia scarabaeusPythia scarabaeusPythia scarabaeus is a species of air-breathing saltmarsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae....