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.
| Diamond Y springsnail | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Tryonia |
| Species: | T. adamantina
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| Binomial name | |
| Tryonia adamantina Taylor, 1987
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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
edit- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Pseudotryonia adamantina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22420A9372331. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22420A9372331.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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