Sportingoods tryonia explained

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.

Description

The shell of this species is about 2.7to, with a circumference approximately half its height. It has 5.0 to 7.0 whorls and is colorless/transparent.

References

• 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