Leptoxis

Leptoxis
Shells of Leptoxis coosaensis and Leptoxis picta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 molluscs 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

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Species within the genus Leptoxis include:[2] Those that are extinct are marked with a dagger †.


Synonyms
  • Leptoxis anthonyix is a synonym for Athearnia anthonyi (Anthony's river snail)
  • Leptoxis crassa is a synonym for Athearnia crassa (boulder snail)
  • Leptoxis pisum is a synonym for Athearnia crassa
  • Leptoxis rapaeformis is a synonym of Leptoxis dilatata
  • Leptoxis melanoides is a synonym of Elimia melanoides (Black mudalia)

References

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  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.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leptoxis Rafinesque, 1819. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1039655 on 2023-10-27