Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Colidae

Colus Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Fusus (Sipho)*	Mörch, 1852	synonym
*Fusus (Siphonorbis)*	Mörch, 1869	synonym
*Neptunea (Sipho)*	Mörch, 1852	synonym
*Sipho*	Mörch, 1852	synonym
*Sipho (Tritonofusus)*	H. Beck, 1847	synonym
*Siphonorbis*	Mörch, 1869	synonym
*Tritonofusus*	Beck, 1847	synonym

Children

Colus aurariae Fraussen, Rosado, Afonso & B. Monteiro, 2009
Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778)
Colus holboellii (Møller, 1842)
Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)
Colus jeffreysianus (P. Fischer, 1868)
Colus sabini (J. E. Gray, 1824)
Colus turgidulus (Friele, 1877)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: slanke noordhorens sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

French: colus

Literature

original description	Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. supplement 1: 121-296.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Colus Röding, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137704