Maiden rocksnail

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

Maiden rocksnail
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L. formosa
Binomial name
Leptoxis formosa
(I. Lea, 1860)

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

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