Telescopium

Telescopium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Potamididae – telescope snails.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda - class; Caenogastropoda - subclass; Cerithioidea - superfamily; Potamididae - family

• (genus): Telescopium telescopium - sole accepted extant species

• Telescopium (gastropod) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Potamididae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Telescopium telescopium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Telescopium at World Register of Marine Species

The constellation was named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763, from New Latin telescopium (“a telescope”)

Telescopium

1. (astronomy) A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.

• Telescopii