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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

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	partial
	Latest Record Review:	2004

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Protostomia
	Superphylum	Spiralia
	Phylum	Mollusca – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks
	Class	Gastropoda Cuvier, 1797 – gastropods, slugs, snails, escargots, gastéropodes, limaces, caracol, caramujo, lesma
	Subclass	Orthogastropoda
	Infraclass	Caenogastropoda
	Superorder	Peogastropoda
	Order	Neogastropoda
	Superfamily	Buccinoidea Rafinesque, 1815
	Family	Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
	Genus	Colus 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 (Mørch, 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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	Other Source(s):
	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
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Colus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Higo, Shun'ichi, Paul Callomon, and Yoshihiro Goto
	Publication Date:	1999
	Article/Chapter Title:
	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

Geographic Information


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Comments


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