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Colus
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This article is about the genus of sea snails. For the genus of fungi, see Colus (fungus).
Colus (lat. colus, distaff) is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.[2][1]
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Two shells of Colus islandicus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Colidae |
Genus: | Colus Röding, 1798 |
Type species | |
Murex islandicus Mohr, 1786 | |
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