Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Buccinidae > Genus Colus

Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Colus*	Röding, 1798	accepted genus name
*Fusus (Sipho)*	Mörch, 1852	synonym
*Neptunea (Sipho)*	Mörch, 1852	synonym
*Sipho*	Mörch, 1852	synonym
*Siphonorbis*	Mörch, 1869	synonym
*Tritonofusus*	Beck, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Murex islandicus*	Mohr, 1786	basionym
*Fusus obesus*	Sowerby G.B. III, 1880	synonym
*Murex islandicus*	Mohr, 1786	synonym
*Neptunia islandica*	(Mohr, 1786)	synonym
*Neptunia islandica var. gallica*	Locard, 1896	synonym
*Tritonium islandicum*	(Mohr, 1786)	synonym
*Tritonium islandicum var. sulcata*	Middendorff, 1849	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Ijslandse slanke noordhorens

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Fraussen K. (2010). Buccinidae checklist. Pers. Com.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GBIF

Citation

Fraussen, K.; Gofas, S. (2014). Colus islandicus. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138902