Malacolog 4.1.1: Western Atlantic Mollusk Species Database at The Academy of Natural Sciences

Malacolog Version 4.1.1

A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Buccinidae

Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)

Range: 77°N to 36.8°N; 92°W to 0°W
Depth: 7 to 759 m (live 7 to 274 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 120 mm

Synonymy

Murex islandicus Mohr, 1786
Sipho islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
Chrysodomus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
Tritonium islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
Neptunea islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
Buccinum angustius Gould, 1841
Tritonium sulcatum Middendorff, 1849
Fusus obesus Sowerby II, 1880
Neptunea gallica Locard, 1896

Details

Murex islandicus Mohr, 1786, p. 136-137, [Martini pl. 141, fig. 1312]
[Basis of the current name]
Attributed to: Chemnitz (1780), Gmelin (1791)
Type Locality: Island [Iceland]
Range: 77°N to 36.8°N; 92°W to 0°W
Depth: 7 to 759 m (live 7 to 274 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 120 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Nunavut, Baffin Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec; USA: Massachusetts, New York, Virginia
References: M. Sars (1851); Thorson (1944) dlNEM; Clarke (1954b) D{S}; Macpherson (1971) LW{lNM}; Merrill, Bullock & Franz (1978) {d}S; Alexeyev (2003)
Combining Genera: Chrysodomus Neptunea Sipho Tritonium

Buccinum angustius Gould, 1841, p. 284, [Lister, pl. 913, fig. 5]
[Not available]
Attributed to: Lister
Type Locality: Not stated
Comments: Name introduced in synonymy of Fusus islandicus.

Neptunea gallica Locard, 1896,
[Synonym]
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) s

Fusus obesus Sowerby II, 1880b, p. 93, pl. 412, fig. 92
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Northern Seas
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) s
Comments: Not Sipho obesus Verrill, which is Retimohnia caelata.

Tritonium (Fusus) islandicum var. sulcata Middendorff, 1849b, p. 471-472, pl. 4, fig. 13
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Eismeer an den Küsten des Russischen Lapplandes
Maximum Reported Size: 93 mm
References: Middendorff (1849b) M; Bouchet & Warén (1985) s

Partial List of References

Gould, A. A. 1841. Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts xiii + 373 pp. Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State: Cambridge, Massachusetts. [True date: pre Oct.]
Middendorff, A. T. von. 1849. Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. II. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen einschaler Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, Sciences Naturelles (6)6 329-516, pls. 1-11.
Mohr, N. 1786. Forso/g til en Islandsk Naturhistorie, med adskillige oekonomiske samt andre Unmaerkninger Forsög til en Islandsk Naturhistorie xvi + 413 + [1] pp., 7 pls. Christian Friderik Holm: Kio/benhavn.
Sowerby, G. B., II. 1880. Monograph of the genus Fusus Thesaurus Conchyliorum 4 69-97, pls. 406-417, 417 bis

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