Leptoxis [SEP] parent taxon
Leptoxis
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"
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"Leptoxis arkansensis"
- "Leptoxis carinata"
- † agate rocksnail ("Leptoxis clipeata" )
- oblong rocksnail ("Leptoxis compacta")
- "Leptoxis crassa"
- "Leptoxis dilatata"
- interrupted rocksnail ("Leptoxis foremanii" )
- † maiden rocksnail ("Leptoxis formosa" )
- † rotund rocksnail ("Leptoxis ligata" )
- † lyrate rocksnail ("Leptoxis lirata" )
- black mudalia ("Leptoxis melanoides" )
- knob mudalia