Oblong rocksnail

Oblong 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. compacta
Binomial name
†Leptoxis compacta (Anthony, 1854)

The oblong rocksnail, scientific name †Leptoxis compacta, was a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

This species was endemic to the United States. It became extinct due to habitat loss.

References

• Bogan, A.E. 2000. Leptoxis compacta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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