Colus sabini

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

Colus sabini
Shell of Colus sabini (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Colidae
Genus:	Colus
Species:	C. sabini
Binomial name
Colus sabini (Gray J.E., 1824)
Synonyms
Buccinum sabini Gray, 1824 (basionym) Colus togatus (Mörch, 1869) Fusus (Siphonorbis) pfaffi Mörch, 1876 · Fusus ebur Mörch, 1869 Fusus hirsutus Jeffreys, 1883 Fusus pfaffi Mörch, 1876 Fusus reeveanus Petit de la Saussaye, 1846 Fusus togatus Mörch, 1869 Neptunea hanseni Friele, 1879 Sipho brevispira Brögger, 1900 Sipho togatus (Mörch, 1869) Sipho togatus var. sinuosa Brögger, 1900 Sipho togatus var. vallensis Brögger, 1900 Siphonorbis ebur (Mörch, 1869)

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean; alo off Japan.

References

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508
• Mayhew, R.; Cole, F. (1994). A taxonomic discussion and update of shell-bearing marine molluscs recorded from NW Atlantic North of Cape Cod (excluding Greenland), and Canadian Arctic Archipeligo
• Abbott R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls.
• Clark R.N. (2016). Notes on some little known Arctic Alaskan mollusks. The Festivus. 48(2): 73-83

External links

• Brøgger W.C. 1900-1901. Om de senglaciale og postglaciale nivåforandringer i Kristianiafeltet (Molluskfaunan). Norges Geologiske Undersøgelse, 31: 1-731, pl. 1-19
• Gray, J.E. (1824). Shells. in: Parry W.E. (ed.) Supplement to Appendix, Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-1820, containing an account of the subjects of Natural History. London: John Murray Appendix 10, Zool.: 240-246
• Mörch, O. A. L. (1876). Description d'espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 24: 368-374
• Jeffreys, J. G. (1883). On the Mollusca procured during the cruise of H. M. S. Triton, between the Hebrides and Faeroes in 1882. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1883): 389-399, pl. 44
• Friele H. 1879. Catalog der auf der norwegischen Nordmeer-Expedition bei Spitzbergen gefundenen Mollusken. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 6: 264-286
• 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