Penion ormesi

Penion ormesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Penion
Species: P. ormesi
Binomial name
Penion ormesi
(Powell A W B, 1927)
Synonyms

Verconella ormesi Powell A W B, 1927

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

Description

Penion ormesi is a large to very large species of siphon whelk.[1] P. ormesi is benthic, and typically inhabits soft-sediments on the continental shelf.[2]

Distribution

The species is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the Cook Strait and off the west coast of the South Island.[1] Fossils of the species are recorded from Wanganui.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  2. Dell, R.K.. 1962. New Zealand Marine Provinces - do they exist? Tuatara, 10: 43 - 52. Online Copy courtesy of New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
  3. Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.
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