''Colosius'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing land
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Veronicellidae
The Veronicellidae, also known by their common name the leatherleaf slugs, are a family of pulmonate terrestrial slugs.
The herbivorous molluscs occur mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas of America, Asia and Africa.
They act as intermed ...
, the leatherleaf slugs.
The
generic name ''Colosius'' is in honor of the Italian zoologist
Giuseppe Colosi Giuseppe Colosi (29 March 1892 – 20 October 1975) was an Italian zoologist. He specialized in the study of crustaceans and mysids in particular.
Colosi was born in Petralia Sottana. From 1920 to 1924, he taught in Turin, and he was the head of th ...
, who described a few species belonging to this genus in 1921.
Thomé established the genus ''Colosius'' for five species in 1975.
Gomes et al. synonymized ''Colosius propinquus'' with ''Colosius pulcher'' and discovered another new ''Colosius'' species in 2012.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Colosius'' includes
Colombia
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,
Ecuador
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,
Peru
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,
Puerto Rico
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,
Dominican Republic
and Haiti.
Species
Species within the genus ''Colosius'' include:
* ''
Colosius buergeri'' (Simroth, 1914)
* ''
Colosius festae'' (Colosi, 1921)
* ''
Colosius lugubris
''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 describ ...
'' (Colosi, 1921) - type species
* ''
Colosius pulcher
''Colosius'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.
The Genus, generic name ''Colosius'' is in honor of the Italian zoologist Giu ...
'' (Colosi, 1921) - synonym: ''Colosius propinquus'' (Colosi, 1921)
[Thomé J. W., dos Santos P. H. & Pedott L. (1997). "Annotated list of Veronicellidae from the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the National Museum of Natural History". '' Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington'' 110(4)]
520
536.
*
''Colosius'' n. sp. from Colombia and Ecuador - a pest on coffee and on flowers
[Gomes S. R., Robinson D. G., Zimmerman F. J., Obregon O. & Barr N. B. (2012). "Morphological and molecular analysis of the Andean land slugs Colosius n. sp., a newly recognized pest of cultivated flowers and coffee from Colombia and Ecuador, and Colosius pulcher (Colosi, 1921) (Gastropoda: Veronicellidae)". ''American Malacological Society 2012 Program and Abstracts'', page 25]
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accessed 13 June 2012.
References
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Veronicellidae