Point of Rocks tryonia

Point of Rocks tryonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

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

The Point of Rocks tryonia, scientific name Tryonia elata, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States. The common name of the species refers to the area known as Point of Rocks, Maryland, in the USA.

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