Leptoxis compacta Anthony, 1854
Oblong rocksnail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1933
Rediscovered in May 2011
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Cahaba River, central Alabama, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Anthony, J. G. (1854). Descriptions of new fluviatile shells of the genus Melania Lam., from western states of North America. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6: 122.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Bogan, A. E. (Mollusc Specialist Group). (2000a). Leptoxis compacta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 16 August 2015.
Bogan, A.E. (Mollusc Specialist Group). 2000b. Leptoxis compacta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T11774A3304833. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T11774A3304833.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Johnson, P.D., Bogan, A.E., Brown, K.M., Burkhead, N.M., Cordeiro, J.R., Garner, J.T., Hartfield, P.D., Lepitzki, D.A.W., Mackie, G.L., Pip, E., Tarpley, T.A., Tiemann, J.S., Whelan, N.V. and Strong, E.E. 2013. Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States. Fisheries 38(6): 247-282.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Whelan, Nathan V., Johnson, Paul D. and Harris, Phil M. (2012). Rediscovery of Leptoxis compacta (Anthony, 1854) (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae). PLoS ONE 7(8): e42499.
Wright, A. D., Garrison, N. L., Williams, A. S., Johnson, P. D. and Whelan, N. V. (2020). Range reduction of Oblong Rocksnail, Leptoxis compacta, shapes riverscape genetic patterns. PeerJ 8: e9789. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9789
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