Leptoxis
| Leptoxis | |
|---|---|
| Shells of Leptoxis coosaensis and Leptoxis picta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Leptoxis Rafinesque, 1819 |
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.