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Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778) 
AphiaID: 138899

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Buccinidae (Family) > Colus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Colus Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Buccinum gracile da Costa, 1778
Fusus listeri Jonas, 1846
Neptunia nicolloni Locard, 1891
Sipho glaber Verkrüzen in Kobelt, 1876
Sources  basis of record: Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121-296 [details]

additional source: Fraussen K. (2010). Buccinidae checklist. Pers. Com. [details]

additional source: 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 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish slank tensnegl  [details]
Dutch slanke noordhoren  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution Colus gracilis as well as C. islandicus were imported from northern parts by fishers. [details]

Distribution: Rare in southern North Sea and English Channel [details]

TaxonomyColus curtus (Jeffreys, 1867) and Colus cordatus (Bell, 1871) are Plio-Pleistenean species which could be confused with Colus gracilis (see Dumoulin, 1982). [details]
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Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778)
Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778)
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Colus gracilis
Colus gracilis
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138899
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2010-07-19 15:09:49Z  checked  Fraussen, Koen
  
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  Citation: Fraussen, K.; Gofas, S. (2013). Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138899 on 2013-05-24
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