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Ancylus

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Ancylus

Genus of freshwater snails with a modified limpetlike shell, giving them their common name river limpets.

Ancylus' lung-sacs always contain water, and they cannot breathe on land. They are found in springs, streams, and lakes adhering to stones and leaves.

Classification

Ancylus belongs to the family Limnaeidae, subclass Pulmonata, class Gastropoda; phylum Mollusca.



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Sir Charles Lyell also informs me that a Dyticus has been caught with an Ancylus (a fresh-water shell like a limpet) firmly adhering to it; and a water-beetle of the same family, a Colymbetes, once flew on board the 'Beagle,' when forty-five miles distant from the nearest land: how much farther it might have flown with a favouring gale no one can tell.
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