Maiden rocksnail
| Maiden rocksnail | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Leptoxis |
| Species: | †L. formosa
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| Binomial name | |
| †Leptoxis formosa (I. Lea, 1860)
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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
[edit]- ^ Bogan, A.E.; et al. (Mollusc Specialist Group) (2000). "Leptoxis formosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T11776A3305014. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T11776A3305014.en. 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
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