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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, 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]
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]