Pythia (gastropod)
| Pythia | |
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| A live 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 Röding, 1798 |
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Pythia is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. [1]
Pythia is a largely terrestrial genus commonly found in the Indo-Pacific. It lives in mangroves from above high tide to further inland. It is readily differentiated within the family by its dorso-ventrally flattened shell and heavily dentate aperture. Plate gave the first account of Pythia scarabaeus in 1897. [2]
Pythia is the type genus of the subfamily Pythiinae.
Species
Species in the genus Pythia include:
- Pythia cecillei (Philippi, 1847)
- Pythia colmani Martins, 1995
- Pythia imperforata (A. Adams, 1850)
- Pythia lekithostoma Reeve, 1832
- Pythia nana
- Pythia pachyodon
- Pythia pantherina (A. Adams, 1851)
- Pythia plicata (Gray, 1825)
- Pythia reeveana Pfeiffer, 1853
- Pythia savaiensis (Mousson, 1869)
- Pythia scarabaeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pythia trigona (Troschel, 1838)
- Taxon inquerendum
- Pythia albovaricosa Pfeiffer, 1853
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pythia argenvillei L. Pfeiffer, 1853: synonym of Pythia scarabaeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pythia ferminii Beck, 1838: synonym of Ovatella firminii (Payraudeau, 1826)
- Pythia helicina Röding, 1798: synonym of Pythia scarabaeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2011). Pythia Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=560065 on 2011-12-04
- ↑ http://www.azoresbioportal.angra.uac.pt/files/publicacoes_Martins_1995MollRes.pdf
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
Pythia plicata
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