Acroloxus lacustris

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Acroloxus lacustris

Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Basommatophora
Family: Acroloxidae
Genus: Acroloxus
Species: A. lacustris
Binomial name
Acroloxus lacustris
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Acroloxus lacustris, or the lake limpet, is a freshwater limpet or snail, a species of aquatic gastropod 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.


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