Penion benthicolus

Penion benthicolus
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent, 2.4–0.0 Ma
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Apertural view of a shell of Penion benthicolus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Penion
Species: P. benthicolus
Binomial name
Penion benthicolus
Dell, 1956
Synonyms
  • P. benthicolus delli Powell, 1971.[1]

Penion benthicolus is a species of small-to-medium sized predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. [2]

P. benthicolus also has a Pleistocene fossil record in the South Island.[3]

Description

Penion benthicolus is a small-to-medium sized species of siphon whelk, height of the shell attains 100 mm and its diamrter 40 mm.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. The species occurs in deep-water,[4] and its range extends from off the northern coast of the North Island to the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands.[1]

Species brought into synonymy

A subspecies, P. benthicolus delli Powell, 197 was formerly recognized,[4] but the taxa has since been demonstrated to be indistinguishable from other P. benthicolus based on shell morphology.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dell, R.K. 1995. New species and records of deep-water Mollusca from off New Zealand. Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2: 1 - 26.
  2. ↑ Marshall, B.; Fraussen, K. (2015). Penion benthicolus Dell, 1956. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=491227 on 2017-07-24
  3. ↑ Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.
  4. 1 2 3 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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