Tympanotonos fuscatus

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
Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Potamididae
Genus:
Tympanotonos

Species:
T. fuscatus
Binomial name
Tympanotonos fuscatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[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 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 along the west coast of Africa, from Angola in the south to Senegal in the north,[1] and also Cape Verde.[3]

References
  1. Appleton C.; Jørgensen A.; Kristensen T.K. & Stensgaard A.-S. (2010). "Tympanotonus fuscatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T165803A6137267. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T165803A6137267.en.
  2. Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
  3. Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2018.
  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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