Pleurocera acuta, common name the sharp hornsnail, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae, the hornsnails.

[1] This species is listed as threatened in some Midwestern states.

[1] The nonindigenous distribution of Pleurocera acuta includes the Lower Hudson River drainage and Oneida Lake in New York State.

[1] This species is found in freshwater rivers and streams where it burrows in sand and mud.

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