Colus pulcius

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Colus pulcius
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Shell of Colus pulcius (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Colidae
Genus: Colus
Species:
C. pulcius
Binomial name
Colus pulcius
Dall, 1919
Synonyms
  • Aulacofusus capponius(Dall, 1919)
  • Aulacofusus pulciusDall, 1919 (original combination)
  • Aulacofusus (Limatofusus) pulcius(Dall, 1919)
  • Colus capponiusDall, 1919
  • Colus (Aulacofusus) capponius(Dall, 1919)
  • Fusus (Sipho) turritusAurivillius, 1885
  • Fusus turritusAurivillius, 1885 (Invalid: junior secondary homonym of Sipho turritus Schafhäutl, 1863)
  • Helicofusus pulcius(Dall, 1919)

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

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Description

(Original description as Colus (Aulacofusus) capponius ) The shell is of moderate size and its height measures 40 mm. The spire is longer than the aperture. The shell is white, with a thin polished, oUvaceous periostracum. The shell contains more than five whorls (the protoconch defective). The whorls are moderately rounded. The suture is distinct and deep. The axial sculpture consists of fine silky incremental striae, sometimes with a tendency to cause wrinkles near the suture. The spiral sculpture consists of (on the penultimate whorl about 17) regular narrow rather deep grooves with much wider flattish interspaces, uniformly covering the whole surface of the shell. The aperture is about twice as long as wide. The outer lip is retroactively arcuate behind and protractively anteriorly, not reflected. The inner lip shows a thin glaze. The columella is white. The siphonal canal is short, wide and hardly reflected. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Bering Strait.

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References

  1. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Colus pulcius (Dall, 1919)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  2. ↑ Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 56 (2295): 293-371.

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