Penion cuvieranus jeakingsi

Taxobox
name = "Penion cuvieranus jeakingsi"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
familia = Buccinidae
genus = "Penion"
species = "Penion jeakingsi"
subspecies = "P. cuvieranus jeakingsi"
trinomial = "Penion cuvieranus jeakingsi"
trinomial_authority = (Powell, 1947)
synonyms = "Veronella jeakingsi" Powell, 1947

"Penion cuvieranus jeakingsi" is a subspecies of very large predatory sea snail or true whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand. It is found around the Cook Strait area.

hell description

The shell is large and solid, with a tall narrow spire but a suddenly enlarged body whorl. The whorls are strongly angled medially, bearing prominent bluntly rounded nodes, ten on the penultimate. Surface sculpture is fine and even.

The external shell coloration is buff, diffused with pale orange-brown. The aperture callus is pinkish-white.

The shell height is up to 154 mm, and width up to 65 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1