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).
Distribution Worldwide."Family summary for Acroloxidae". AnimalBase, last change 14-08-2006, accessed 3 August 2010
Anatomy Pulmones are reduced. Sexual cavity and accessory gills are on the right side.
Genera Genera within the family Acroloxidae include: Acroloxus Beck, 1838Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum præsentis ævi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. pp. 1-100 , 101-124 . Hafniae. - type genus Baicalancylus Starobogatov, 1967 Frolikhiancylus Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1993 Gerstfeldtiancylus Starobogatov, 1989Starobogatov (1989). In: Linevich (Ed.) Fauna Baikala. Chast' 4 - Chervi, mollyuski, chlenistonogie: sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Fauna of Lake Baikal. Part 4 - worms, molluscs and arthropods: collected scientific papers. Nauka, Novosibirsk: 58. Pseudancylastrum Lindholm, 1909Lindholm (1909). Wiss. Ergeb. Exped. Baikal 4: 26.
Synonyms Costovelletia Starobogatov, 1991: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (a junior synonym) Dinarancylus Starobogatov, 1991: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (a junior synonym) Velletia J. E. Gray, 1840: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (junior objective synonym)
References
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Thiele, J. (1929–1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp.
External links Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397.