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

Sportingoods tryonia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Tryonia
Species:
T. angulata
Binomial name
Tryonia angulata
Hershler & Sada, 1987[2]

Description

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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

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  1. ^ Bogan, A.E. (1996). "Tryonia angulata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22422A9372495. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22422A9372495.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Hershler, Robert; Sada, D. (1987). "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