Acroloxus lacustris
| Acroloxus lacustris | |
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| Acroloxus lacustris Lake Constance | |
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| 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 |
| Species: | A. lacustris |
| Binomial name | |
| Acroloxus lacustris (Linnaeus, 1758)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acroloxus velkovrhi Bole, 1965 | |
Acroloxus lacustris, or the lake limpet, is a small freshwater limpet or snail, a species of aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Acroloxidae.
Description
The 4–7 mm. (7 mm long, 3 mm wide and 2 mm high) shell is laterally compressed elongate and limpet-like (no whorls and cone or hat shaped) with a sharp apex twisted to the left The colour is yellowish-grey to brown.The dimensions may vary depending on the substrate surface. On thin plant stems the shells are narrow, and more parallel-sided on leaves and stones they are rather wide oval.
Distribution
Found across Europe to western and central Siberia.The distribution type is Eurosiberian Wide Temperate. This species of freshwater limpet is found in European countries and islands including:
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Czech Republic[3]
- Slovakia[3]
- Poland
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- For a full list see Fauna Europaea
References
- ↑ Seddon, M.B. (2014). "Acroloxus lacustris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ↑ Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th edition. Vermes. Testacea: 700-781. Holmiae. (Salvius).
- 1 2 (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
External links
- Acroloxus lacustris at Animalbase
- Acroloxus lacustris images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Encyclopedia of Life images
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