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Sportingoods tryonia

Species of freshwater snail From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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Sportingoods tryonia
Critically Imperiled
Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cochliopidae
Genus: Tryonia
Species:
T. angulata
Binomial name
Tryonia angulata
Hershler & Sada, 1987[3]
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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.[3]

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