Pomaulax

Pomaulax is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Pomaulax
Shell of Pomaulax japonicus (Dunker, 1844), measuring 47.7 mm in height by 74.8 mm diameter, collected with tangle nets at 20 m depth off Pt. Daio, Shima-cho, in Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Pomaulax
Gray, 1850
Type species
Trochus japonicus
Dunker, 1845

Description

The large, solid, imperforate shell has a conic shape. The periphery is carinated. The base of the shell is flattened. The umbilical tract shows a strong curved rib. The ; operculum is obovate, narrower toward the proximal extremity. Its nucleus is terminal, its outside with four strong granulose ribs radiating from the nucleus.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Pomaulax include:

Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Pomaulax Gray, 1850. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 September 2012.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  3. Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 October 2011.
  4. Pomaulax japonicus (Dunker, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  • Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592.
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245.
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