Global InformationTympanotonos fuscatus information
| Tympanotonos fuscatus | |
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| Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula | |
Conservation status
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 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Mollusca
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| Class: | Gastropoda
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| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea
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| Family: | Potamididae
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| Genus: | Tympanotonos Schumacher, 1817[2]
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| Species: | T. fuscatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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| 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]
- ^ a b 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 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.