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Smooth rocksnail
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Leptoxis
Species:
L. virgata
Binomial name
Leptoxis virgata
I. Lea, 1841

The smooth rocksnail, scientific name Leptoxis virgata, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

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References

  1. Bogan, A.E. (1996). "Leptoxis virgata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T11787A3305908. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T11787A3305908.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.