Penion ormesi

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Penion ormesi
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Penion ormesi snail collected from Golden Bay in New Zealand
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Austrosiphonidae
Genus: Penion
Species:
P. ormesi
Binomial name
Penion ormesi
(Powell A W B, 1927)
Synonyms

Verconella ormesi Powell A W B, 1927Penion cuvierianus jeakingsi(Powell, 1947) [1]

Contents

Penion ormesi is a species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae. [2]

Description

Penion ormesi is a large to very large species of siphon whelk. [3] P. ormesi is benthic, and typically inhabits soft-sediments on the continental shelf. [4]

Recent genetic and geometric morphometric research using shell shape and size has demonstrated that a formerly recognised species Penion cuvierianus jeakingsi is closely related to Penion ormesi, and the taxon has been synonymised. [1] However, further genetic and morphological variation observed among these snails suggests that there may be further diversity within this lineage. [1]

Distribution

The species is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the Cook Strait and off the west coast of the South Island. [3] Fossils of the species are recorded from Wanganui. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Vaux, Felix; Gemmell, Michael R.; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Beu, Alan G.; Crampton, James S.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2020). "Lineage Identification Affects Estimates of Evolutionary Mode in Marine Snails". Systematic Biology. 69 (6): 1106–1121. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syaa018. PMID   32163159.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 2 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
  4. Dell, R.K. 1962. New Zealand Marine Provinces - do they exist? Tuatara, 10: 43 - 52. Online Copy courtesy of New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
  5. Beu, Alan G.; Maxwell, P.A. (1990). Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin. Vol. 58. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. ISSN   0114-2283.