Coosa rocksnail

Coosa rocksnail
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Leptoxis
Species: L. showalterii
Binomial name
Leptoxis showalterii
(I. Lea, 1860)

The Coosa rocksnail, scientific name †Leptoxis showalterii, also known as the "ribbed rocksnail", was a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae.

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

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (2000) Leptoxis showalterii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.