Quitabaquito tryonia

Quitabaquito tryonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Tryonia
Species: T. quitobaquitae
Binomial name
Tryonia quitobaquitae
Hershler, 1988

The Quitabaquito tryonia, scientific name Tryonia quitobaquitae, 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.

The common name refers to the Quitabaquito Springs Oasis, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona.

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