Colus islandicus

Colus islandicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.

Colus islandicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Colidae
Genus:	Colus
Species:	C. islandicus
Binomial name
Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
Synonyms
Euthria obesa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1880) (dubious synonym) Fusus islandicus (Mohr, 1786) Fusus islandicus Chemnitz, 1780 (unavailable name: published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1) Fusus obesus G. B. Sowerby II, 1880 Murex islandicus Mohr, 1786 (original combination) Neptunia islandica (Mohr, 1786) Neptunia islandica var. gallica Locard, 1896 Tritonium (Fusus) islandicum (Mohr, 1786) superseded combination Tritonium (Fusus) islandicum var. sulcata Middendorff, 1849 Tritonium islandicum (Mohr, 1786)

Subspecies

• Colus islandicus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
• Colus islandicus subangulosus Paulmier, 2020

Description

• The length of the shell attains 135 mm.

Distribution

Distribution range of this marine species: 77°N to 36.8°N; 92°W to 0°W.

Distribution:

• Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland;
• Canada; Canada: Baffin Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec;
• USA: Massachusetts, New York, Virginia

References

• Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
• Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

External links

• Mohr, N. (1786). Forsog til en Islandsk Naturhistorie, med adskillige oekonomiske samt andre Anmaerkninger. C.F. Holm, Kobenhavn (Copenhagen) 414pp., pls. 1-7.
• Sowerby, G. B. II. (1880). Monograph of the genus Fusus. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (35-36): 69–97, pl. 406–417bis. London
• Chemnitz, J. H. (1780-1795). Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet. Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nürnberg. Vol. 4
• Locard A. (1896) Mollusques testacés et brachiopodes, pp. 129-242, pl. 5-6, in: Koehler R. (1896) Résultats scientifiques de le campagne du "Caudan" dans le Golfe de Gascogne. Annales de l'Université de Lyon, 26
• Middendorff T. A. von. (1849). Beiträge zur einer Malacozoologica Rossica, II. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen Einschaler. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St-Petersbourg, sixième série, Sciences naturelles. 6: 329-516, pl. 1-11.
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
• Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324
• Media related to Colus islandicus at Wikimedia Commons