New Zealand Mollusca

Key to Geographical Ranges

The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approxomation of the range of each species within New Zealand.

Kermadec Islands

Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape

Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island

Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island

Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island

An=

Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand

FW =

Freshwater

L =

Land

E =

Endemic

I =

Introduced

Gastropoda (Phylum) > Mollusca (Subphylum) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Buccinulidae (Family) > Penion (Genus)

Genus: Penion	map >
*Penion chathamensis* (Powell, 1938) Height 244mm, Width 106mm, Endemic Chatham Rise to Chatham Islands, trawled around 400-450 metres [M]
*Penion cuvierianus* (Powell, 1927) (=dilatatus of authors) Height 220mm, Width 85mm, Endemic North Island to Cook Strait and Tasman Bay [AC]
*Penion cuvierianus jeakingsi* (Powell, 1947) Height 150mm, Width 65mm, Endemic Cook Strait to Tasman Bay [C]
*Penion fairfieldae* (Powell, 1947) Height 156mm, Width 65mm, Endemic. Solid, shorter spire, with wide shoulders and axial folds South Island, off Otago Heads [F]
*Penion lineatus* Marshall, Hills & Vaux, 2018 King Bank, Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands and northwest of Cape Reinga [A]
*Penion ormesi* (Powell, 1927) Height 200mm, Width 75mm, Endemic. Slender with tall spire From Northland down to Cape Campbell and Cook Strait [AC]
*Penion sulcatus* (Lamarck, 1816) (=dilatatus Quoy & Gaimard) Height 160mm, Width 65mm, Siphon Whelk. Endemic North and South Islands, intertidal to about 50 fathoms [AC]