Penion cuvieranus
| Penion cuvieranus | |
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| 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 |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Penion |
| Species: | P. cuvieranus |
| Binomial name | |
| Penion cuvieranus | |
| Synonyms | |
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
These subspecies have been named:
- P. c. cuvieranus
- P. c. 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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