World Register of Deep-Sea species - Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778)

RAS taxon details

Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778)

AphiaID

138899 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138899)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Colus Röding, 1798

Original name

Buccinum gracile da Costa, 1778

Synonymised names

Neptunia gracilis (da Costa, 1778) · unaccepted

Neptunia gracilis var. major Locard, 1896 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778). Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2021) Register of Antarctic Species at: http://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138899 on 2025-06-30

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Colus gracilis (da Costa, 1778). Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138899 on 2025-06-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-07-19 15:09:49Z

checked

Fraussen, Koen

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783 [details]

original description (of Neptunia gracilis var. major Locard, 1896) Locard A. (1896) Mollusques testacés et brachiopodes, pp. 129-242, pl. 5-6, in: Koehler R. (1896) Résultats scientifiques de le campagne du "Caudan" dans le Golfe de Gascogne. Annales de l'Université de Lyon, 26. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42101839 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/140763 [details]

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. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors