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]
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| Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula | |
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| Genus: | Schumacher, 1817[2]
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| Species: | T. fuscatus
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| Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Tympanotonos fuscatus is the only extant species in the genus Tympanotonos.[4]
Description
editShells of Tympanotonos fuscatus can reach a size of about 35–100 millimetres (1.4–3.9 in).[5]
Distribution
editThis 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
edit- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
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