Penion cuvierianus Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent,
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Dorsal view of a shell of Penion cuvierianus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Austrosiphonidae |
Genus: | Penion |
Species: | P. cuvierianus
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Binomial name | |
Penion cuvierianus (Powell, 1927)
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Penion cuvierianus is a species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, commonly called the flaring penion, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae.[1]