Tympanotonos fuscatus

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Tympanotonos fuscatus

| image = Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula 01.jpg

| image_caption =Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Van Damme, D. |author2=Appleton, C. |author3=Jørgensen, A. |author4=Kristensen, T.K. |author5=Stensgaard, A.-S. |date=2020 |title=Tympanotonos fuscatus |volume=2020 |page=e.T165803A151149734 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T165803A151149734.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha

| superfamilia = Cerithioidea

| familia = Potamididae

| subfamilia =

| genus = Tympanotonos

| genus_authority = Schumacher, 1817Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.

| species = T. fuscatus

| binomial = Tympanotonos fuscatus

| binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

| synonyms_ref = {{WRMS species|527570|Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)||17 December 2018}}

| 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)

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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.

Tympanotonos fuscatus is the only extant species in the genus Tympanotonos.{{Cite journal

| last1 = Reid | first1 = D. G.

| last2 = Dyal | first2 = P.

| last3 = Lozouet | first3 = P.

| last4 = Glaubrecht | first4 = M.

| last5 = Williams | first5 = S. T.

| title = Mudwhelks and mangroves: The evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae)

| doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.003

| journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

| volume = 47

| issue = 2

| pages = 680–699

| year = 2008

| pmid = 18359643

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