Amargosa tryonia

Amargosa tryonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Tryonia
Species: T. variegata
Binomial name
Tryonia variegata
Hershler & Sada, 1987

The Amargosa tryonia, scientific name Tryonia variegata, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. The common name refers to the Amargosa River.

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