Colus jeffreysianus

Colus jeffreysianus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.^[1]

Colus jeffreysianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Colidae
Genus:	Colus
Species:	C. jeffreysianus
Binomial name
Colus jeffreysianus (Fischer P., 1868)
Synonyms
Colus howsei (J. T. Marshall, 1902) Fusus (Sipho) pupula Fischer P., 1883 Fusus attenuatus Jeffreys, 1877 Fusus consimilis Marshall, 1902 Fusus jeffreysianus Fischer P., 1868 Fusus propinquus Alder, 1848 Fusus propinquus var. howsei Marshall, 1902 Fusus propinquus var. laevis Marshall, 1902 Neptunia jeffreysiana (Fischer P., 1868) Neptunia jeffreysiana var. bicolor Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. elongata Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. major Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. minor Locard, 1896 Neptunia jeffreysiana var. ventricosa Locard, 1896 Neptunia pupoidea Locard, 1897 Neptunia torra Locard, 1897 Sipho turritus (M. Sars, 1859) Siphonorbis marshalli Iredale, 1918 Tritonium turritum Sars M., 1859

Description

The length of the shell attains 58.3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea.