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
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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]
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.