A new species of Penion P. Fischer, 1884 from northern New Zealand (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)

ABSTRACT

We describe a new, morphologically distinct species of Penion found off the Three Kings Islands, Middlesex and King banks, and Cape Reinga, in the far north of New Zealand.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:573BCBA0-1FFB-490D-8AEF-AC156354E48B

KEYWORDS:

• Buccinidae
• Caenogastropoda
• endemism
• Gastropoda
• marine snail
• siphon whelk
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the late Hunter and Molly Seelye and Peter Jamieson for the holotype and paratypes from NW of Cape Reinga. We thank Sadie Mills (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) for the distribution map and the loan of the small adult male paratype. We also thank Yuri Kantor (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) for comments on Penion radulae, Jean-Claude Stahl (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) for photography and Kerry Walton for assistance with preparation of the plate. We thank Hiroshi Fukuda (Okayama University) and the editor Don Colgan (Australian Museum) for their helpful comments.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Simon F. K. Hills http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9115-0375

Felix Vaux http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2882-7996

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi Marsden Fund grant [MAU-1201], and a funding contribution from the Department of Conservation Taxonomic and Threat Status Information fund [RIF 4718].