Acroloxidae
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Acroloxidae, commonly known as river limpets, are a taxonomic family of very small, freshwater molluscs, aquatic pulmonate gastropod limpet-like mollusks with a simple flattened conical shell.
[edit] Life habits
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.
[edit] Genera in the family Acroloxidae
- Acroloxus Beck, 1838
- Pseudancylastrum
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