Leptoxis
Leptoxis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks 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
Species within the genus Leptoxis include. Those that are extinct are marked with a dagger †.
Synonyms:
- Leptoxis anthonyix Anthony's river snail is a synonym for Athearnia anthonyi
- Leptoxis crassa boulder snail is a synonym for Athearnia crassa
- Leptoxis pisum Haldeman, 1848: synonym of Leptoxis crassa
- Leptoxis rapaeformis Haldeman, 1848: synonym of Leptoxis dilatata
