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Colus  Röding, 1798
Taxonomic Serial No.: 73892

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria   
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumLophozoa   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassGastropoda Cuvier, 1797 – gastropods, slugs, snails, escargots, gastéropodes, limaces, caracol, caramujo, lesma  
                   SubclassProsobranchia Milne-Edwards, 1848  
                      OrderNeogastropoda   
                         FamilyBuccinidae Rafinesque, 1815  
                            GenusColus Röding, 1798  
    Direct Children:  
                               Species Colus acosmius (Dall, 1891)  
                               Species Colus adonis (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus amrautius   
                               Species Colus aphelus (Dall, 1890) – oblique whelk 
                               Species Colus aurantius (Dall, 1907) – broad-cord whelk 
                               Species Colus barbarinus Dall, 1919 – Santa Barbara whelk 
                               Species Colus bristolensis Dall, 1919  
                               Species Colus brunneus (Dall, 1877) – brown whelk 
                               Species Colus caelathus (A. E. Verrill and S. Smith, 1880)  
                               Species Colus caelatus (A. E. Verrill and Smith, 1880) – carved whelk 
                               Species Colus calameus (Dall, 1907)  
                               Species Colus calathus Dall, 1919  
                               Species Colus callorhinus (Dall, 1877) – strombiform whelk 
                               Species Colus capponius Dall, 1919  
                               Species Colus dalmasius (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus dautzenbergi (Dall, 1916)  
                               Species Colus errones Dall, 1919 – wayward whelk 
                               Species Colus esychus (Dall, 1907)  
                               Species Colus georgianus (Dall, 1921)  
                               Species Colus glyptus (Verrill, 1882)  
                               Species Colus gracilis   
                               Species Colus griseus (Dall, 1890) – gray whelk 
                               Species Colus halibrectus (Dall, 1891)  
                               Species Colus halidonus Dall, 1919  
                               Species Colus halimeris (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus hallii (Dall, 1873)  
                               Species Colus herendeenii (Dall, 1902) – thin-ribbed whelk 
                               Species Colus holbolli (Moller, 1842)  
                               Species Colus hunkinsi A. H. Clarke, 1962  
                               Species Colus incisus (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786) – Iceland whelk 
                               Species Colus jeffreysianus   
                               Species Colus jordani (Dall, 1913)  
                               Species Colus kroyeri (Möller, 1842) – Arctic whelk 
                               Species Colus latericeus (Moller, 1842)  
                               Species Colus leptalens (Verrill, 1884)  
                               Species Colus martensi (Krause, 1885)  
                               Species Colus oceanodromae (Dall, 1919) – seahorse whelk 
                               Species Colus ombronius Dall, 1919 – shady whelk 
                               Species Colus parvus (Tiba, 1980)  
                               Species Colus periscelidus (Dall, 1891) – garter whelk 
                               Species Colus perminutus (Dall, 1927)  
                               Species Colus profundicola (Verrill and Smith, 1884)  
                               Species Colus pubescens (A. E. Verrill, 1882) – hairy whelk 
                               Species Colus pulcius (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus pygmaeus (Gould, 1841) – pygmy whelk 
                               Species Colus roseus (Dall, 1877) – rosy whelk 
                               Species Colus rushii Dall, 1889  
                               Species Colus sabinii (J. E. Gray, 1824)  
                               Species Colus sapius (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus severinus (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus stejnegeri (Dall, 1884)  
                               Species Colus stimpsoni (Mřrch, 1867)  
                               Species Colus syrtensis (Packard, 1867)  
                               Species Colus tahwitanus (Dall, 1918)  
                               Species Colus terraenovae Bouchet and Waren, 1985 – ventricose whelk 
                               Species Colus timetus (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus trombinus (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus trophius (Dall, 1919)  
                               Species Colus turgidulus (Friele, 1877)  
                               Species Colus verkruezeni (Kobelt, 1876)  
                               Species Colus virens (Dall, 1877) – green whelk 
       

 References
       
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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Colus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Abbott, Robert Tucker  
  Publication Date: 1974   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. 2nd ed.   
  Page(s): 663   
  Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-442-20228-8   
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  Reference for: Colus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Higo, Shun'ichi, Paul Callomon, and Yoshihiro Goto  
  Publication Date: 1999   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda   
  Page(s): 749   
  Publisher: Elle Scientific Publications   
  Publication Place: Osaka-fu, Japan   
  ISBN/ISSN: 4-901172-01-8   
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  Reference for: Colus   
       

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