Tympanotonos fuscatus

Tympanotonos fuscatus
	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
	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, 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]

Description

Shells of Tympanotonos fuscatus can reach a size of about 35–100 millimetres (1.4–3.9 in).^[5]

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]

^ ^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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