Acroloxus

Acroloxus
Two views of a shell of Acroloxus lacustris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Acroloxoidea
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

Species in the genus Acroloxus include:

References

  1. Beck H. 1837. Index molluscorum præsentis ævi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. pp. 1-100 [1837], 101-124 [1838]. Hafniae.
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