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graceful colus

Colus gracilis

Classification

Family
Colidae

Colus gracilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks and the like. Description A smooth form with flatter whorls, 40 to 100 mm in length, but a highly variable species that occurs in several morphologically different geographical and bathymetrical forms; these forms may look identical over large areas, then give an impression that several near species are involved. Distribution {It lives on sand to mud bottoms, between 50 and 1500 m, from northern Norway to Portugal.

Distribution

Niels Schrieken · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 37Netherlands · 27France · 3Belgium · 1Spain · 1