Penion lineatus

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Penion lineatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Austrosiphonidae
Genus: Penion
Species:
P. lineatus
Binomial name
Penion lineatus
B.A. Marshall, Hills & Vaux, 2018

Penion lineatus is a species of medium-sized marine snail or whelk, belonging to the true whelk family Austrosiphonidae. [1] [2] [3] It was described in 2018. [2]

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Description

Adult shells are between 68 mm and 172 mm in length. The shell protoconch is cream coloured and the teleoconch is covered in yellow or brown bands. [2]

Distribution

Penion lineatus is endemic to waters surrounding the Three Kings Islands and Cape Reinga north of mainland New Zealand. [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Marshall, Bruce A.; Hills, Simon F.K.; Vaux, Felix (2018). "A new species of Penion P. Fischer, 1884 from northern New Zealand (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)". Molluscan Research. 38 (4): 238–242. doi:10.1080/13235818.2017.1420398. S2CID   90709310.
  3. 1 2 Vaux, Felix; Crampton, James S.C.; Trewick, Steven A.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Beu, Alan G.; Hills, Simon F.K.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2018). "Evolutionary lineages of marine snails identified using molecular phylogenetics and geometric morphometric analysis of shells". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127 (October 2018): 626–637. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.009. PMID   29913310. S2CID   49303166.
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