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

Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Murex Linnaeus, 1758

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

*Euthria obesa*	(G. B. Sowerby II, 1880)	synonym
*Fusus obesus*	G. B. Sowerby II, 1880	synonym
*Neptunia islandica*	(Mohr, 1786)	synonym
*Neptunia islandica var. gallica*	Locard, 1896	synonym
*Tritonium (Fusus) islandicum*	(Mohr, 1786)	synonym
*Tritonium (Fusus) islandicum var. sulcata*	Middendorff, 1849	synonym
*Tritonium islandicum*	(Mohr, 1786)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Ijslandse slanke noordhorens 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: Islandic 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: Isländische Spindelschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Colus islandicus (Mohr, 1786). 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:138902