Diamond Y springsnail
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Species: | T. adamantina
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Tryonia adamantina Taylor, 1987
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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.[1]
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