Leptoxis
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| An 1882 drawing of the shell of Leptoxis taeniata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Leptoxis Rafinesque, 1819[1] |
Leptoxis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae.
Species within this genus inhabit rocky fast-flowing parts of unpolluted and unimpounded mid-sized rivers in the American mid South and the southern Midwest. Species in the subgenus Mudalia inhabit rivers and creeks in the Atlantic drainage.
Species[]
Species within the genus Leptoxis include. Those that are extinct are marked with a dagger †.
- Leptoxis ampla (Anthony, 1855)
- (Hinkley, 1915)
- Leptoxis carinata (Bruguière, 1792)
- †Agate rocksnail (Leptoxis clipeata (Smith, 1922))
- Oblong rocksnail (Leptoxis compacta)
- Leptoxis crassa (Haldeman 1841)
- (Conrad, 1835)
- Interrupted rocksnail (Leptoxis foremanii (I. Lea, 1843) )
- †Maiden rocksnail (Leptoxis formosa (I. Lea, 1860) )
- †Rotund rocksnail (Leptoxis ligata (Anthony, 1860))
- †Lyrate rocksnail (Leptoxis lirata (Smith, 1922))
- Black mudalia (Leptoxis melanoides (Conrad, 1834) )
- Knob mudalia (Leptoxis minor (Hinkley, 1912) )
- †Bigmouth rocksnail (Leptoxis occultata (Smith, 1922) )
- Spotted rocksnail (Leptoxis picta)
- Plicate rocksnail (Leptoxis plicata (Hinkley, 1915))
- Mainstream river snail (Leptoxis praerosa (Say, 1821) )
- †Coosa rocksnail (Leptoxis showalterii (I. Lea, 1860) )
- Painted rocksnail (Leptoxis taeniata)
- †Leptoxis torrefacta
- (Say, 1829)
- (Wetherby, 1876)
- Smooth rocksnail (Leptoxis virgata)
- †Striped rocksnail (Leptoxis vittata (I. Lea, 1860))
Synonyms:
- Leptoxis anthonyix Anthony's river snail is a synonym for Athearnia anthonyi
- Leptoxis crassa boulder snail is a synonym for Athearnia crassa
- Leptoxis pisum Haldeman, 1848: synonym of Leptoxis crassa (Haldeman 1841)
- Leptoxis rapaeformis Haldeman, 1848: synonym of (Conrad, 1835)
References[]
- ^ (in French) Rafinesque C. S. (1819). "Prodrome de 70 nouveaux Genres d'Animaux découverts dans l'intérieur des États-Unis d'Amérique, durant l'année 1818". Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle 88: 417-429. Leptoxis is on page 424.
Categories:
- Leptoxis
- Pleuroceridae
- Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque