Sportingoods tryonia

Sportingoods tryonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Tryonia
Species: T. angulata
Binomial name
Tryonia angulata
Hershler & Sada, 1987[2]

The sportingoods tryonia, scientific name Tryonia angulata, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

Description

The shell of this species is about 2.7 to 4.0 millimetres (0.11 to 0.16 in), with a circumference approximately half its height. It has 5.0 to 7.0 whorls and is colorless/transparent.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bogan, A.E. 1996. Tryonia angulata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. 1 2 Hershler, Robert; Sada, D. "Springsnails (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) of Ash Meadows, Amargosa Basin, California-Nevada". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 100: 776–843. hdl:10088/11319. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  • Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al. (1998), Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed., American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26, p. 526, American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA


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