Penion Temporal range: Lower Miocene to Recent |
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A shell of Penion cuvieranus cuvieranus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
Family: | Buccinidae |
Genus: | Penion Fischer, 1884[1] |
Species | |
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Penion is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Species and subspecies in the genus Penion include: