Penion oncodes
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| Penion oncodes | |
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| Shell of Penion oncodes (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Austrosiphonidae |
| Genus: | Penion |
| Species: | †P. oncodes |
| Binomial name | |
| †Penion oncodes (R. A. Philippi, 1887) | |
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† Fusus oncodes R. A. Philippi, 1887 superseded combination | |
Penion oncodes is an extinct species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, commonly called the flaring penion, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae. [1]
