Penion
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| Penion Fossil range: Lower Miocene to Recent |
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Penion is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
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[edit] Distribution
Species within this genus are endemic to south eastern Australia and New Zealand.
[edit] Habitat
These snails are found intertidally to deep water.
[edit] Shell decription
These snails have large fusiform shells with a tall spire and a long flexuous siphonal canal. The operculum is leaf-shaped with an incurved terminal nucleus. The protoconch is tall, cylindrical, of 2.5 to 3.5 smooth whorls. The radula formula is 1+1+1, with both the central and the lateral teeth tricuspid.
[edit] Species in the genus Penion
- Penion benthicolus benthicolus Dell, 1956
- Penion benthicolus delli Powell, 1971
- Penion chathamensis (Powell, 1938)
- Penion cuvieranus cuvieranus (Powell, 1927)
- Penion cuvieranus jeakingsi (Powell, 1947)
- Penion mandarinus (Duclos, P.L., 1831)
- Penion mandarinus waitei (Hedley, C., 1903)
- Penion ormesi (Powell, 1927)
- Penion sulcatus (Lamarck, 1816)
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
