Sportingoods tryonia

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.

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]

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. 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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