Description
The Tumbling Creek cavesnail is a small, white, blind, aquatic snail.
The shell is small, conical, well-rounded and pale-yellow with about 3.5 whorls. The dimensions of the type specimen are as follows: height 2.3 millimeters (mm) (0.09 inches); diameter 2.0 mm (0.08 in); aperture height 1.2 mm (0.05 in); aperture diameter 1.1 mm (0.04 in).
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