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''Leptoxis clipeata'', the agate rocksnail, was a freshwater
snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...
in the family
Pleuroceridae Pleuroceridae, common name pleurocerids, is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.These snails have an operculum and typically a robust high-spired shell. Reproduc ...
. Like all ''
Leptoxis ''Leptoxis'' is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum (gastropod), operculum, Aquatic animal, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae. Species within this genus inhabit rocky fast-flowing parts of unpolluted an ...
'', the species required free-flowing unpolluted water. It was
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to parts of the Coosa River in Alabama, now impounded.Burch, (1982) Freshwater Snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of North America. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio.


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clipeata Extinct gastropods Gastropods described in 1922 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pleuroceridae-stub