Cheatum's snail

Cheatum's snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Tryonia
Species: T. cheatumi
Binomial name
Tryonia cheatumi
(Pilsbry, 1935)

Cheatum's snail also known as the Phantom tryonia, scientific name Tryonia cheatumi, is a species of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States.

References

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