Acroloxus
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Acroloxus is a genus
of very small, air-breathing, freshwater snail
s, or more precisely limpets, aquatic
pulmonate gastropods in the family Acroloxidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of very small, air-breathing, freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s, or more precisely limpets, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
pulmonate gastropods in the family Acroloxidae
Acroloxidae
Acroloxidae, commonly known as river limpets, are a taxonomic family of very small, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod limpet-like mollusks with a simple flattened conical shell in the clade Hygrophila....
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Species
Species in the genus Acroloxus include:- Acroloxus coloradensis J. Henderson, 1930 - Rocky Mountain capshellRocky Mountain capshellThe Rocky Mountain capshell, Acroloxus coloradensis, is a very small, freshwater limpet or snail, a species of aquatic gastropod in the family Acroloxidae.- Distribution and conservation status :...
- Acroloxus improvisus Polinski, 1929
- Acroloxus lacustrisAcroloxus lacustrisAcroloxus lacustris, or the lake limpet, is a small freshwater limpet or snail, a species of aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Acroloxidae.- Distribution :...
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Lake limpet - Acroloxus macedonicus Hadžišce, 1959
- Acroloxus tetensi (Kušcer, 1832)