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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorColus obesus (A. E. Verrill, 1884) 
AphiaID: 160208

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeogastropoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBuccinoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBuccinidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorColus (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorColus obesus (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorRetimohnia caelata (Verrill, 1880)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorColus Röding, 1798
Sources  basis of record 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. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorplump whelk  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Note 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution Martha's Vineyard, to Florida [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160208
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-31 07:34:34Z  created  Claus, Simon
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2010). Colus obesus (A. E. Verrill, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160208 on 2017-09-24
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