Telescopium (gastropod)

Telescopium Temporal range: 65.500–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Paleocene to Holocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Potamididae
Genus:	Telescopium Montfort, 1810

Telescopium is a genus of cone-shaped sea snails in the family Potamididae.^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Telescopium include:

• Telescopium telescopium (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]

Species brought into synonymy

• † Telescopium gigas K. Martin, 1881: synonym of † 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)

References[]

• http://paleodb.org/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=10556&is_real_user=1
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp

External links[]

• 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)]. ]

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