California brackish water snail

California brackish water snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Tryonia
Species: T. imitator
Binomial name
Tryonia imitator
Pilsbry, 1899

The California brackish water snail, also known as the mimic tryonia, scientific name Tryonia imitator, is a species of very small brackish water snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States.

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