Penion cuvierianus

Penion cuvieranus
	A shell of Penion cuvieranus from the Kapiti Coast, north of Wellington, New Zealand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Penion
Species:	P. cuvieranus
Binomial name
	Penion cuvieranus;
Synonyms
	Fusus dilatatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833; Siphonalia dilatata Suter, 1913; Megalatractus maximus Suter, 1913; Verconella dilatata Iredale, 1914; Verconella dilatata rex Finlay, 1927; Verconella dilatata cuvieriana Iredale, 1914;

Penion cuvieranus is a species of very large predatory sea snail or true whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Subspecies

These subspecies have been named: