Colus gracilis

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Colus gracilis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Colidae
Genus: Colus
Species:
C. gracilis
Binomial name
Colus gracilis
(da Costa, 1778)
Synonyms
  • Buccinum gracileda Costa, 1778
  • Colus glaber(Verkrüzen in Kobelt, 1876)
  • Fusus gracilis(da Costa, 1778)
  • Fusus gracilis var. bellianaJordan, 1890
  • Fusus gracilis var. convolutaJeffreys, 1867
  • Fusus gracilis var. coulsoniJordan, 1890
  • Fusus listeriJonas, 1846
  • Neptunia gracilis(da Costa, 1778)
  • Neptunia gracilis var. majorLocard, 1896
  • Neptunia nicolloniLocard, 1891
  • Sipho glaberVerkrüzen in Kobelt, 1876
  • Sipho gracilis(da Costa, 1778)
  • Sipho gracilis var. glabraVerkrüzen in Kobelt, 1876
  • Sipho togatus var. frieleiHarmer, 1914
  • Sipho turgidulus var. minorThorson, 1944
  • Tritonium islandicum var. striataMiddendorff, 1849

Colus gracilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks and the like. [1]

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Description

A smooth form with flatter whorls, 40 to 100 mm in length, but a highly variable species that occurs in several morphologically different geographical and bathymetrical forms; these forms may look identical over large areas, then give an impression that several near species are involved. [2]

Distribution

{It lives on sand to mud bottoms, between 50 and 1500 m, from northern Norway to Portugal. A species frequently accidentally fished by fishing trap fishermen from the Channel and the Bay of Biscay, such as those from the port of Conquet in Brittany; this fishing trap fishery is the only one that brings this difficultly accessible species back to land. See Bouchet and Waren 1985. See also European Seashells Vol.1, from Poppe and Goto 1991.}

References

  1. Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal neogastropoda, by Ph.Bouchet

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