title: Kryptos (gastropod)
text: # Kryptos (gastropod)
  
  Kryptos is a genus of large sea snails, whelks, a marine gastropod molluscs in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Kryptos koehleri (Locard, 1896)
  * Kryptos tholoides (Watson, 1882)
  
  ### Species brought into synonymy
  
  * Kryptos elegans Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896: synonym of Kryptos koehleri (Locard, 1896)
  * Kryptos explorator Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008: synonym of Jerrybuccinum explorator (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)
  