Tympanotonos
Genus of gastropods
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Tympanotonos is a genus of snail living in brackish water, a gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | Tympanotonos Schumacher, 1817[1][2] |
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Extant and extinct species
Species within this genus include:[2][3]
- † Tympanotonus calcaratus (Grateloup, 1840)
- † Tympanotonus conarius (Bayan, 1873)
- Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (the only extant species)
- † Tympanotonus margaritaceum (Brongniart)
- † Tympanotonos redoniensis Van Dingenen, Ceulemans & Landau, 2016
- † Tympanotonus semperi (Deshaye, 1864)
- † Tympanotonos stroppus Brongniart 1823
Fossils species within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, South Africa, Japan, Venezuela and Indonesia from Cretaceous to Quaternary (age range: 84.9 to 0.012 Ma).
