Viviparus acerosus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.
Distribution The distribution of this species is Danubian. Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
It is found in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (in Moravia only), 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. Slovakia, Germany, Hungary and Romania.
Its non-indigenous distribution includes the Netherlands since 2007.Menno Soes D., Glöer P. & de Winter A. J. (2009). "Viviparus acerosus (Bourguignat, 1862) (Gastropoda: Viviparidae), a new exotic snail species for the Dutch fauna" . Aquatic Invasions 4(2): 373-375, .
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