Iceland whelk

Colus islandicus

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Colidae

Colus (lat. colus, distaff) is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like. Evolution Colus is related to the New Zealand genus Austrofusus.

Distribution

Iceland whelk — (c) JoJan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 1Netherlands · 1

Sources and credits

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Iceland whelk

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