Colus stimpsoni

Colus stimpsoni
Colus stimpsoni shells
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Colidae
Genus:	Colus
Species:	C. stimpsoni
Binomial name
Colus stimpsoni (Mørch, 1868)
Synonyms
Fusus curtus Jeffreys, 1867 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Fusus...) Fusus solidulus G. B. Sowerby II, 1880 (preoccupied) Fusus stimpsonii Mörch, 1870 (original combination) Fusus striatus Reeve, 1847 (invalid: junior homonym of Fusus striatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Neptunea (Sipho) arata Verrill, 1880 · Neptunea arata Verrill, 1880 Sipho stimpsoni var. brevis Verrill, 1882 d Sipho stimpsonii (Mörch, 1868) Sipho stimpsonii var. liratulus Verrill, 1882 Tritonofusus stimpsoni (Mörch, 1868)

Colus stimpsoni, common name the Stimpson's colus, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.

Distribution

The species has been found in the Bay of Fundy in Canada, and various other gulfs situated about the western shores of northern America.

External links

• Mörch, O. A. L. (1870). Fauna Molluscorum Islandiae. Oversigt over Islands Blöddyr. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 1868 (11-13): 185-229.
• L. A. (1847-1848). Monograph of the genus Fusus. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 4, pls 1-21 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
• Sowerby, G. B. II. (1880). Monograph of the genus Fusus. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (35-36): 69–97, pl. 406–417bis. London, privately published
• Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 (1862). Vol. 2: pp. 479 (1864). Vol. 3: pp. 394 (1865). Vol. 4: pp. 487 (1867). Vol. 5: pp. 259 (1869) London, van Voorst
• Verrill, A.E. (1882). Catalogue of marine Mollusca added to the fauna of the New England region, during the past ten years. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5(2): 447-587, pls 42-44, 57-58
• [httpsVerrill, A. E. (1880). Notice of recent addition to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part II - Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc., collected by the United States Fish Commission. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 3: 356-409]://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14917456