Diamond Y springsnail
| Diamond Y springsnail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Tryonia |
| Species: | T. adamantina |
| Binomial name | |
| Tryonia adamantina Taylor, 1987 | |
The Diamond Y springsnail, scientific name Tryonia adamantina, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
The species is endemic to the United States. The common name is a reference to the Diamond Y Spring which is on the Diamond Y Spring Preserve in West Texas, a cienaga system.
References
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Tryonia adamantina.
- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- About the Diamond Y Spring Preserve
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