Colus terraenovae

Colus terraenovae
	Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.202817 1 - Colus terraenovae Bouchet & Warèn, 1985 - Buccinidae - Mollusc shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Colidae
Genus:	Colus
Species:	C. terraenovae
Binomial name
	Colus terraenovae; Bouchet & Warén, 1985
Synonyms[1]
	Colus ventricosus (J. E. Gray, 1839); Fusus ventricosus Gray, 1839 (invalid: junior homonym of Fusus ventricosus Anton, 1838; Colus terraenovae is a replacement name);

Colus terraenovae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 58 mm.

This marine species occurs off Newfoundland, Canada

Gray, J. E. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1839). Molluscous animals and their shells. Pp. 103-155, pls 33-34 [pp. 103-142 by J. E. Gray, 143-155 by G. B. Sowerby I. In: The zoology of Capt. Beechey's voyage, compiled from the collections on notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits in his Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28. London pp. XII + 186 + 44 pl.]
Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. supplement 1: 121-296

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