Penion cuvieranus

Penion cuvieranus
A shell of Penion cuvieranus from the Kapiti Coast, north of Wellington, New Zealand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Penion
Species:	P. cuvieranus
Binomial name
Penion cuvieranus
Synonyms
Fusus dilatatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 Siphonalia dilatata Suter, 1913 Megalatractus maximus Suter, 1913 Verconella dilatata Iredale, 1914 Verconella dilatata rex Finlay, 1927 Verconella dilatata cuvieriana Iredale, 1914

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

Subspecies

The following subspecies have been named:

• Penion cuvieranus jeakingsi

References

Further reading

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

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