Coosa rocksnail

Coosa rocksnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Leptoxis
Species: †L. showalterii
Binomial name
†Leptoxis showalterii
(I. Lea, 1860)

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

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.
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