Biology:Maiden rocksnail

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Maiden rocksnail
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
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

  • Lea, I. (1860). Descriptions of fourteen new species of Schizostomae, Anculosae and Lithasiae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 186-188 [after 22 May 1860]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26297333

Wikidata ☰ Q308666 entry