| Named By: | Robert L. Carroll in 1969 |
| Time Period: | Unavailable |
| Location: | Scotland |
| Size: | About 15 centimetres long |
| Diet: | Carnivore/Insectivore |
| Fossil(s): | Skull and partial post cranial skeleton |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Amphibia | Lepospondyli | Adelospondyli | Acherontiscidae | |
Acherontiscus is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibian that lived during the Carboniferous. The type and only species is Acherontiscus caledoniae, named by paleontologist Robert Carroll in 1969.