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

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.

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