Penion ormesi
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Penion ormesi snail collected from Golden Bay in New Zealand | |
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Phylum: | Mollusca
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Class: | Gastropoda
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Species: | P. ormesi
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Penion ormesi (Powell A W B, 1927)
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Verconella ormesi Powell A W B, 1927 Penion cuvierianus jeakingsi (Powell, 1947)[1] |
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.[2] P. ormesi is benthic, and typically inhabits soft-sediments on the continental shelf.[3]
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]
- Shell of Penion ormesi (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
- Shell formerly recognised as Penion cuvierianus jeakingsi
Distribution[]
The species is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the Cook Strait and off the west coast of the South Island.[2] Fossils of the species are recorded from Wanganui.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ Dell, R.K. 1962. New Zealand Marine Provinces - do they exist? Tuatara, 10: 43 - 52. Online Copy courtesy of New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Taxon: Penion ormesi Powell, 1927 (Species)
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam - Mollusca - Gastropoda - Buccinidae
- Buccinidae
- Gastropods of New Zealand
- Gastropods described in 1927
- Buccinidae stubs