Bigmouth rocksnail

The bigmouth rocksnail, scientific nameLeptoxis occultata, 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.

Bigmouth rocksnail
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L. occultata
Binomial name
Leptoxis occultata
(H. H. Smith, 1922)

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