Coosa rocksnail

The Coosa rocksnail, scientific nameLeptoxis showalterii, also known as the "ribbed rocksnail", was a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae.

Coosa rocksnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
L. showalterii
Binomial name
Leptoxis showalterii
(I. Lea, 1860)

This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (2000) Leptoxis showalterii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.