Acroloxus lacustris
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Acroloxus lacustris's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility12 983 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI31 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics38 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Acroloxus lacustris, or the lake limpet, is a small freshwater limpet or snail, a species of aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Acroloxidae.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment2
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Acroloxus lacustris has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type12 983 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions19 of 44 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 282 |
| DEMNA-DNElocation not on record | 214 |
| Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record | 122 |
| Helsinki, FI | 118 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 114 |
| Salzburg, AT | 55 |
| Bern, CH | 47 |
| Gothenburg, SE | 47 |
| SNSDlocation not on record | 42 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 29 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 26 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 19 |
| Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record | 15 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 13 |
| LEBAlocation not on record | 11 |
| Paro, BT | 10 |
| Philadelphia, US | 9 |
| Stockholm, SE | 9 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 9 |
| Cambridge, US | 7 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 6 |
| AGClocation not on record | 5 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 5 |
| South Kensington, GB | 4 |
| Institute of Zoology Slovak Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 3 |
| Barcelona, ES | 3 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 3 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 3 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 2 |
| Champaign, US | 2 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 2 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 2 |
| AQBGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Geneva, CH | 2 |
| Tromsø, NO | 1 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 1 |
| Washington, US | 1 |
| Saint John, CA | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
Where the DNA of Acroloxus lacustris was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.