Smooth rocksnail

Smooth rocksnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Leptoxis
Species: L. virgata
Binomial name
Leptoxis virgata
I. Lea, 1841

The smooth rocksnail, scientific name Leptoxis virgata, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

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