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Pythia
Pythia is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae.
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.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pythia scarabaeus
speciesPythia scarabaeus
Pythia trigona
speciesPythia trigona
Pythia plicata
speciesPythia plicata
Pythia pantherina
speciesPythia pantherina
Pythia cecillii
speciesPythia cecillii
Pythia pachyodon
speciesPythia pachyodon
Pythia imperforata
speciesPythia imperforata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 371530.