Endangered
Painted rocksnail
Leptoxis taeniata
Painted rocksnail is a gastropod in the family Pleuroceridae — Leptoxis taeniata, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The painted rocksnail is a small to medium-sized pleurocerid snail with a shell that measures about 19 mm (0.75 in) in length, and is subglobose to oval in shape. The shell coloration varies from yellowish to olive-brown, usually with four dark bands. Some shells do not have these dark bands, and some have the bands broken into square or oblong patches (see Goodrich, 1922 for a detailed description).
Range and habitat
The painted rocksnail had the largest range of any rocksnail in the Mobile River Basin. It was historically known from the Coosa River and tributaries from the northeastern corner of St. Clair County, Alabama, downstream into the mainstem of the Alabama River to Claiborne, Monroe County, Alabama, and the Cahaba River below the Fall Line in Perry and Dallas counties, Alabama.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.
In crisis
The snail has been listed as threatened on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species since October 28, 1998. Tennessee Aquarium Research Institute (TNARI) has established captive populations of painted rocksnails.
Painted rocksnail is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Painted rocksnail, Wikidata item Q3142723. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
