''Telescopium'' is a
genus
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of cone-shaped
sea snail
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s in the
family
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Potamididae
''Potamididae'', common name potamidids (also known as horn snails or mudwhelks) are a family of small to large brackish water snails that live on mud flats, mangroves and similar habitats. They are amphibious gastropod molluscs in the superfami ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Telescopium'' include:
* ''
Telescopium telescopium''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
)
; Species brought into synonymy:
* † ''Telescopium gigas''
K. Martin, 1881: synonym of † ''
Campanile martini''
Matsubara, 2009 (invalid: secondary junior homonym of ''Campanile gigas''
Leymerie, 1851;
C. martini is a replacement name)
* ''Telescopium indicator''
Montfort, 1810: synonym of ''Telescopium telescopium''
(Linnaeus, 1758) (a junior synonym)
* ''Telescopium mauritsi''
Butot, 1954: synonym of ''Telescopium telescopium''
(Linnaeus, 1758) (a junior synonym)
References
* http://paleodb.org/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=10556&is_real_user=1
* Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423
* Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp
* Yamanaka, T.; Mizota, C. (2001). Sulfur Nutrition of Gastropods and Bivalves Relevant to the Mangrove Forests: A Case Study from Central Sumatra, Indonesia. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 60 (1-2): 71-78
External links
Montfort P. [Denys de (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808">enys de">Montfort P. [Denys de
(1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808 Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 (1810) (before 28 May).]
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online.
Potamididae
Monotypic gastropod genera
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