Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Buccinidae | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Buccinoidea Genus Penion | |
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.
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Description
Penion benthicolus is a small-to-medium sized species of siphon whelk, endemic to New Zealand. The species occurs in deep-water, and its range extends from off the northern coast of the North Island to the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands. P. benthicolus also has a fossil record in the South Island.
Species brought into synonymy
A subspecies, P. benthicolus delli Powell, 197 was formerly recognized, but the taxa has since been demonstrated to be indistinguishable from other P. benthicolus based on shell morphology.
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