Striped rocksnail
Striped 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. vittata |
Binomial name | |
Leptoxis vittata (I. Lea, 1860) | |
The striped rocksnail, scientific name Leptoxis vittata, 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 vittata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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