Acroloxus

Taxobox
name = "Acroloxus"

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image_caption = "Acroloxus lacustris"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Basommatophora
familia = Acroloxidae
genus = "Acroloxus"
genus_authority = Beck, 1838

"Acroloxus" is a genus of very small, air-breathing, freshwater snails, or more precisely limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropods in the family Acroloxidae.

These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.

pecies in the genus "Acroloxus"

* Rocky Mountain capshell, "Acroloxus coloradensis"
* "Acroloxus improvisus" Polinski, 1929
* "Acroloxus lacustris" (Linnaeus, 1758) - Lake limpet
* "Acroloxus macedonicus" Hadžišce, 1959
* "Acroloxus tetensi" (Kušcer, 1832)