Acroloxus
Appearance
Acroloxus | |
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Two views of a shell of Acroloxus lacustris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Acroloxidae |
Genus: | Acroloxus Beck, 1838[1] |
Acroloxus is a genus of very small, air-breathing, freshwater snails, or more precisely limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropods in the family Acroloxidae.
Species
[edit]Species in the genus Acroloxus include:
- Acroloxus coloradensis J. Henderson, 1930 - Rocky Mountain capshell
- Acroloxus egirdirensis Shirokaya, 2012
- Acroloxus improvisus Polinski, 1929
- Acroloxus lacustris (Linnaeus, 1758) - Lake limpet
- Acroloxus macedonicus Hadžišce, 1959
- Acroloxus pseudolacustris, Glöer & Pešić, 2012
- Acroloxus tetensi (Kušcer, 1832)
References
[edit]- ^ Beck H. 1837. Index molluscorum præsentis ævi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. pp. 1-100 [1837], 101-124 [1838]. Hafniae.