''Colosius'' is a

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of air-breathing land

slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, 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 ...

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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 inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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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 interme ...

, 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 t ...

, 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

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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'' (Colosi, 1921) - type species * '' Colosius pulcher'' (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". ''

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536. * ''Colosius'' n. sp. from Colombia and Ecuador - a pest on coffee and on flowersGomes 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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References

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