Maiden rocksnail

Maiden rocksnail
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
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

• Bogan A. E. (2000) Leptoxis formosa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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