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Tympanotonos fuscatus
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Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Potamididae
Genus:
Tympanotonos

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.

Tympanotonos fuscatus is the only extant species in the genus Tympanotonos.

Description

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

Distribution

This species is found along the west coast of Africa, from Angola in the south to Senegal in the north, and also Cape Verde.

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