Viviparus acerosus

Viviparus acerosus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Viviparus acerosus
Five shells of Viviparus acerosus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Viviparus
Species:	V. acerosus
Binomial name
Viviparus acerosus (Bourguignat, 1862)[2]

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Danubian.^[3]

It is found in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (in Moravia only),^[4] Slovakia,^[4] Germany, Hungary and Romania.

Its non-indigenous distribution includes the Netherlands since 2007.^[5]