Acroloxus lacustris
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| 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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