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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Buccinidae

Colus holboellii (Möller, 1842)


Range: 77.21°N to 60°N; 92°W to 0°W
Depth: 15 to 2198 m (live 15 to 570 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 70  mm

Synonymy

Fusus holboellii Möller, 1842
Sipho holboellii (Möller, 1842) 
Fusus tortuosus Reeve, 1855
Sipho attenuatus G. O. Sars, 1878
Fusus delicatus Jeffreys, 1883
Siphonorbis distinctus Posselt, 1896
Sipho crassus Harmer, 1914

Details


Fusus holböllii Möller, 1842a, p. 88
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: [West] Greenland
Range: 69.22°N to 60.12°N; 90°W to 0°W
Depth: 64 to 239 m
Maximum Reported Size: 70 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland
References: Posselt & Jensen (1899) DdNSM; Bouchet & Warén (1985) EW; Schiötte & Warén (1992) {M}
Comments: The spelling holbollii might be preferred, depending on interpretation of ICZN Article 32.5.2.1 (Holböll was Danish not German).
Combining Genera:  Sipho

Sipho tortuosus var. attenuata G. O. Sars, 1878, p. 273-274, pl. 15, fig. 5
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Jeffreys MS
Type Locality: Lofoten
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) s

Sipho crassus Harmer, 1914, 
[Synonym]
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) s

Fusus delicatus Jeffreys, 1883b, p. 396, pl. 44, figs. 6-6b
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Triton sta. 8, 1882, 60°18'N, 6°15'W, 640 fms.; 60°05'N, 6°21'W, 608 fms.; Knight Errant cruise, 540 fms.
Maximum Reported Size: 32 mm
References: Jeffreys (1883b) M; Bouchet & Warén (1985) s

Siphonorbis turritus var. distincta Posselt, 1896, p. 84-85, pl. 1, figs. 13-14
[Synonym]
Type Locality: 70°32'N, 8°10'W, 470 fms, off East Greenland
Distribution: Greenland: East Greenland
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) s
Comments: As Sipho on plate caption, Siphonorbis in text.

Fusus tortuosus Reeve, 1855, 
[Synonym]
Range: 77.21°N to 60°N; 92°W to 0°W
Depth: 15 to 2198 m (live 15 to 570 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 58 mm
Distribution: Greenland: East Greenland; Baffin Bay, Canada: Nunavut, Baffin Island, Quebec
References: Thorson (1944) dl{DLN}; Macpherson (1971) {dl}EWM; Clarke (1974) DLN; Bouchet & Warén (1985) s


Partial List of References

Jeffreys, J. G. 1883. On the Mollusca procured during the cruise of H.M.S. 'Triton' between the Hebrides and Faroes in 1882 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883 389-399, pl. 44.
Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.
Posselt, H. G. 1896. O/stgro/landske Mollusker Meddelelser om Gro/nland 19 59-94, pl. 1.
Sars, G. O. 1878. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Artktische Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Articae Norvegiae  xvi + 466 pp., 1 map, pls. 1-34, I-XVIII. Bro/gger: Christiania.

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