Tympanotonos fuscatus
Tympanotonos fuscatus | |
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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] | |
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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 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.
- ↑ Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
- 1 2 Tympanotonus Schumacher, 1817. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 October 2010.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Tympanotonus fuscatus". Gastropods.com.
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