| Tympanotonos fuscatus | |
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| Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula | |
| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | Tympanotonos Schumacher, 1817 |
| Species: | T. fuscatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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.
Tympanotonos fuscatus is the only extant species in the genus Tympanotonos.
Description
Shells of Tympanotonos fuscatus can reach a size of about 35–100 millimetres (1.4–3.9 in).
Distribution
This species is found along the west coast of Africa, from Angola in the south to Senegal in the north, and also Cape Verde.
References
- ^ Van Damme, D.; Appleton, C.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, T.K.; Stensgaard, A.-S. (2020). "Tympanotonos fuscatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T165803A151149734. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T165803A151149734.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
- ^ Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2018.
- 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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Tympanotonos fuscatus | |
| Murex fuscatus | |
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