Lyrate rocksnail
Species of gastropod
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The lyrate rocksnail, scientific name †Leptoxis lirata, was a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.
| Lyrate rocksnail | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Leptoxis |
| Species: | †L. lirata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Leptoxis lirata (H. H. Smith, 1922) | |
This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.
