Penion sulcatus

Penion sulcatus
Dorsal view of a shell of Penion sulcatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Penion
Species: P. sulcatus
Binomial name
Penion sulcatus
(Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms

Fusus sulcatus Lamarck, 1816
Fusus zelandicus Quoy and Gaimard, 1833
Fusus adustus Philippi, 1845

Penion sulcatus is a species of very large predatory sea snail or true whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

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