Pythia is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of 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.
According to the World Register of Marine Species, species in the genus Pythia include:[1]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Pythia is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks 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.
Pythia is the type genus of the subfamily Pythiinae.
扁耳螺屬（学名：Pythia），又名女教士螺屬，得名於古希臘的阿波羅神女祭司皮媞亞。本屬是腹足綱耳螺科的一种，是一種在鹽沼生活的螺，而且能夠呼吸空氣。扁耳螺屬舊屬原始有肺目[2]，今屬真有肺總目的耳螺目[1]。
扁耳螺屬物種在印度太平洋區中最常見的陸地螺類。牠們生活在紅樹林，從高潮區到往更內陸的地區都有。牠們在同科物種間，因其特徵背側腹扁平殼和大齒狀孔徑而很容易分辨出來[3]。
Plate在1897年首先描述豹耳螺（Pythia scarabaeus）[4]。
