Colus jeffreysianus

Colus jeffreysianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Colus
Species:	C. jeffreysianus
Binomial name
Colus jeffreysianus (Fischer P., 1868)
Synonyms
Colus howsei (J. T. Marshall, 1902) Fusus (Sipho) pupula Fischer P., 1883 Fusus attenuatus Jeffreys, 1877 Fusus consimilis Marshall, 1902 Fusus jeffreysianus Fischer P., 1868 Fusus propinquus Alder, 1848 Fusus propinquus var. howsei Marshall, 1902 Fusus propinquus var. laevis Marshall, 1902 Neptunia jeffreysiana (Fischer P., 1868) Neptunia jeffreysiana var. bicolor Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. elongata Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. major Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. minor Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. ventricosa Locard, 1896 Neptunia pupoidea Locard, 1897 Neptunia torra Locard, 1897 Sipho turritus (M. Sars, 1859) Siphonorbis marshalli Iredale, 1918 Tritonium turritum Sars M., 1859

Colus jeffreysianus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea.

References

• Jeffreys J. G. (1877). New and peculiar Mollusca of the Eulimidae and other families of Gastropoda, as well as of the Pteropoda, procured in the Valorous expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (4)19: 317-339
• 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

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