Tympanotonos fuscatus

Tympanotonos fuscatus
Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Potamididae
Genus: Tympanotonos
Schumacher, 1817[2]
Species: T. fuscatus
Binomial name
Tympanotonos fuscatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[3][3]
  • Tympanotomus Gray, 1840
  • Tympanotonus Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation)
  • Tympanotomus fuscatus Linnaeus
  • Murex radula Linnaeus, 1758
  • Tympanotomus fuscatus Linnaeus (misspelled genus)
  • Tympanotonos radula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Tympanotonus fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelled genus)
  • Tympanotonus granulatus (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Tympanotonus radula (Linnaeus, 1758) (junior synonym; misspelled genus)

Tympanotonos fuscatus, the West African Mud Creeper, is a species of snail living in brackish water, a gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[1][3]

Tympanotonos fuscatus is the only extant species in the genus Tympanotonos.[4]

Description

Shells of Tympanotonos fuscatus can reach a size of about 35–100 millimetres (1.4–3.9 in).[5]

Distribution

This species is found in along the coasts of Angola, Cape Verde, Gabon and generally West Africa.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Appleton C., Jørgensen A., Kristensen T.K. & Stensgaard A-S. (2009). Tympanotonus fuscatus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
  3. 1 2 3 Tympanotonus Schumacher, 1817.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 October 2010.
  4. ↑ Reid, D. G.; Dyal, P.; Lozouet, P.; Glaubrecht, M.; Williams, S. T. (2008). "Mudwhelks and mangroves: The evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 (2): 680–699. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.003. PMID 18359643.
  5. ↑ "Tympanotonus fuscatus". Gastropods.com.


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