Lyrate rocksnail

The lyrate rocksnail, scientific nameLeptoxis lirata, was a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Lyrate rocksnail
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L. lirata
Binomial name
Leptoxis lirata
(H. H. Smith, 1922)

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

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