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Acroloxus

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Acroloxus
Two views of a shell of Acroloxus lacustris
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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

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Species in the genus Acroloxus include:

References

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