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    Maiden rocksnail

    Topic: Biology

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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

    1. ↑ Bogan, A.E. (2000). "Leptoxis formosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T11776A3305014. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T11776A3305014.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11776/3305014. Retrieved 15 November 2021. 
    • 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




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