Location: Adventure Bay (Bruny Island, TAS)

Habitat: Rocky intertidal

Penion mandarinus
Whelk

 

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Orthogastropoda

Order: Sorbeoconcha

Family: Buccinidae

Genus: Penion

Species: mandarinus

 

Similar species:
Pleuroploca australasia
Fusinus australis
Penion maxima