Leptoxis

Leptoxis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae.

Leptoxis
An 1882 drawing of the shell of Leptoxis taeniata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Leptoxis
Rafinesque, 1819[1]

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 †.


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 Leptoxis dilatata (Conrad, 1835)

References

  1. (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.
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