Penion

Penion
Temporal range: Lower Miocene to Recent
A shell of Penion cuvieranus cuvieranus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

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

Species and subspecies in the genus Penion include:

References

  1. ^ Fischer (1884). Man. Conch.: 625.