WoRMS taxon details
Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
AphiaID: 138902
AphiaID: 138902
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: 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 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Fraussen K. (2010). Buccinidae checklist. Pers. Com. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: 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. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North Coast of Scotland [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Shetlands [details] South Coast of England [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Marine Life Information Network - UK To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Range: 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 [details] Distribution: Colus gracilis as well as C. islandicus were imported from northern parts by fishers. [details] Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138902 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fraussen, K.; Gofas, S. (2013). Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138902 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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