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Leptoxis
Sign in to saveLeptoxis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyPleuroceridae
Habitatfreshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 387
- With media
- 39
- Family
- Pleuroceridae
- Collections
- NCSM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
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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.
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