Tympanotonos fuscatus

Tympanotonos fuscatus
Conservation status
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][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 a species of a snail living in brackish water, gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[1][3]

Tympanotonos fuscatus is the only species in the genus Tympanotonos.[4]

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species is found in along the coasts of Angola, Cape Verde, Gabon and generally West Africa.

References

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
  3. ^ a b c Tympanotonos Schumacher, 1817.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527564  on 1 October 2010.
  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. PubMed, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.003.