Acroloxidae
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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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Acroloxidae | |
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A left side view of a live Acroloxus lacustris | |
Two views of a shell of Acroloxus lacustris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
Family: | Acroloxidae Thiele, 1931 |
Diversity[1] | |
About 40 freshwater species |
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Acroloxidae is the only family within the superfamily Acroloxoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).