Penion benthicolus

Penion benthicolus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Penion
Species: P. benthicolus
Binomial name
Penion benthicolus
Dell, 1956
Synonyms
  • P. benthicolus delli (Powell, 1971).[1]

Penion benthicolus is a species of small-to-medium sized predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Description

Penion benthicolus is a small-to-medium sized species of siphon whelk, endemic to New Zealand.[2] The species occurs in deep-water,[2] and its range extends from off the northern coast of the North Island to the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands.[1] P. benthicolus also has a fossil record in the South Island.[3]

Species brought into synonymy

A subspecies, P. benthicolus delli (Powell, 1971) was formerly recognized,[2] but the taxa has since been demonstrated to be indistinguishable from other P. benthicolus based on shell morphology.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dell, R.K. 1995. | New species and records of deep-water Mollusca from off New Zealand. Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2: 1 - 26.
  2. 1 2 3 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  3. Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.
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