Maiden rocksnail
Maiden rocksnail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Pleuroceridae |
Genus: | Leptoxis |
Species: | †L. formosa |
Binomial name | |
†Leptoxis formosa (I. Lea, 1860) | |
The maiden rocksnail, scientific name †Leptoxis formosa, was a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.
This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.
References
- Bogan A. E. (2000) Leptoxis formosa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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