Tryonia

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Cochliopidae[1]
Genus: Tryonia
Stimpson, 1865[2]

Tryonia is a genus of mostly minute freshwater snails with an operculum. These are aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Cochliopidae.[1]

This genus has been traditionally placed within family Hydrobiidae.

Species

Species within the genus Tryonia include:

References

  1. ^ a b Wesselingh F. P., Anderson L. C. & Kadolsky D. (2006). "Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia". Scripta Geologica 1333: 19-290. PDF.
  2. ^ a b Stimpson W. (1865). "Diagnoses of newly discovered genera of gasteropods, belonging to the sub-fam. Hydrobiinae, of the family Rissoidae". American Journal of Conchology 1: 52-54. page 54.

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