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

Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Colus*	Röding, 1798	accepted genus name
*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

Species group names

*Buccinum gracile*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Colus glaber*	(Verkrüzen, 1876)	synonym
*Fusus gracilis*	(da Costa, 1778)	synonym
*Fusus gracilis var. belliana*	H. K. Jordan, 1890	synonym
*Fusus gracilis var. convoluta*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Fusus gracilis var. coulsoni*	H. K. Jordan, 1890	synonym
*Fusus listeri*	Jonas, 1846	synonym
*Neptunia gracilis*	(da Costa, 1778)	synonym
*Neptunia gracilis var. major*	Locard, 1896	synonym
*Neptunia nicolloni*	Locard, 1891	synonym
*Sipho glaber*	Verkrüzen, 1876	synonym
*Sipho gracilis*	(da Costa, 1778)	synonym
*Sipho gracilis var. glabra*	Verkrüzen, 1876	synonym
*Sipho togatus var. frielei*	Harmer, 1914	synonym
*Sipho turgidulus var. minor*	Thorson, 1944	synonym
*Tritonium (Fusus) islandicum var. striata*	Middendorff, 1849	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: slank tensnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: slanke noordhoren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: graceful colus; slender colus sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Röhrenhorn; Schlanke Spindelschnecke

Literature

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.
additional source	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138899