WoRMS taxon details
Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
527570 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527570)
accepted
Species
Cerithium granulatum Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted
Murex fuscatus Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted
Murex radula Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted
Murex terebella Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
Nerita aculeata O. F. Müller, 1774 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Potamides granulatus (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted
Tympanotomus fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (misspelled genus)
Tympanotonos radula (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Tympanotonus fuscatus [sic] · unaccepted (misspelled genus)
Tympanotonus fuscatus radula (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Tympanotonus granulatus (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted
Tympanotonus radula [sic] · unaccepted (junior synonym; misspelled genus)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Murex fuscatus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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page(s): 755 [details] Available for editors
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Note M. Mediterraneo [erroneous]
Type locality M. Mediterraneo [erroneous] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527570 on 2026-05-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Murex fuscatus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 755 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Murex radula Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 756 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Murex terebella Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description (of Nerita aculeata O. F. Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. vol 2. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Mölleriana. I-XXXVI, 1-214 pp, 10 unnumbered pages. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 193 [details]
original description (of Cerithium granulatum Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): 9 [details]
basis of record 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: 680-699., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.003 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 755 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Murex radula Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 756 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Murex terebella Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description (of Nerita aculeata O. F. Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. vol 2. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Mölleriana. I-XXXVI, 1-214 pp, 10 unnumbered pages. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 193 [details]
original description (of Cerithium granulatum Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): 9 [details]
basis of record 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: 680-699., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.003 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality M. Mediterraneo [erroneous] [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus [sic])
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Tympanotomus fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus radula (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Tympanotonus radula [sic])
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) (from synonym Murex radula Linnaeus, 1758)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tympanotonos fuscatus)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus [sic])
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Malacopics (Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus radula (Linnaeus, 1758))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus [sic])
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Tympanotomus fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus radula (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Tympanotonus radula [sic])
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) (from synonym Murex radula Linnaeus, 1758)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tympanotonos fuscatus)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus [sic])
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Malacopics (Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus radula (Linnaeus, 1758))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Tympanotonus fuscatus [sic])
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