Global InformationColosius information
| Colosius | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Mollusca
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| Class: | Gastropoda
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Veronicelloidea
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| Family: | Veronicellidae
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| Genus: | Colosius Thomé, 1975[1]
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| Diversity | |
| 5 species (in this list) | |
Colosius is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.
The generic name Colosius is in honor of the Italian zoologist Giuseppe Colosi, who described a few species belonging to this genus in 1921.[1] Thomé established the genus Colosius for five species in 1975.[1] Gomes et al. synonymized Colosius propinquus with Colosius pulcher and discovered another new Colosius species in 2012.[2]
- ^ a b c (in Portuguese) Thomé J. W. (1975) "Os gêneros da família Veronicellidae nas Américas (Mollusca; Gastropoda)". Iheringia, Porto Alegre, Série Zoologia (48): 3-56. page 13.
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