Maiden rocksnail

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| name = Maiden rocksnail

| image =

| status = EX

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref ={{cite iucn |author=Bogan, A.E. |collaboration=Mollusc Specialist Group |date=2000 |title=Leptoxis formosa |volume=2000 |page=e.T11776A3305014 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T11776A3305014.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| genus = Leptoxis

| species = formosa

| authority = (I. Lea, 1860)

| synonyms =

}}

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.

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

References

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  • Lea, I. (1860). Descriptions of fourteen new species of Schizostomae, Anculosae and Lithasiae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 186-188 [after 22 May 1860]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26297333

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Category:Leptoxis

Category:Extinct gastropods

Category:Gastropods described in 1860

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Taxa named by Isaac Lea

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