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Colus
Sign in to saveColus (lat. colus, distaff) is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.
Species
colus
Genus
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyColidae
Habitatmarine
Observations1,096
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 745
- With media
- 39
- Family
- Colidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NCU, UWBM, F, PRI, MEL
- Recorded in
- Italy, United States, Costa Rica, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Buccinidae
- Image
- Colus islandicus 001.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Colus
- Commons category
- Colus
- taxon name
- Colus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Slanke noordhorens
- start time
- 66043000-0
- homonymous taxon
- Colus
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Evolution
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Synonyms
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Colus (lat. colus, distaff) is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.
==Evolution== Colus is related to the New Zealand genus Austrofusus.
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