Acroloxidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Acroloxidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Acroloxidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acroloxidae
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.
Acroloxidae is the only family within the superfamily Acroloxoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
...Acroloxidae in languages:
- Czech
- člunicovití
- Dutch
- Kapslakken
- English
- River Limpets
- Finnish
- huppukotilot
- Japanese
- ユンデコザラガイ科
- Lithuanian
- Gaubteniniai
- Swedish
- dammhättesnäckor
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