Pomaulax is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
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| 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 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Pomaulax Gray, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Trochus japonicus Dunker, 1845
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Description
editThe 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
editSpecies within the genus Pomaulax include:
- Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817)[3]
- Pomaulax japonicus (Dunker, 1844)[4]
- Pomaulax spiratus (Dall, 1911)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pomaulax turbanicus Dall, 1910: synonym of Megastraea turbanica (Dall, 1910)
- Pomaulax undosum Wood, 1828: synonym of Megastraea undosa (Wood, 1828)
References
edit- ^ Pomaulax Gray, 1850. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 September 2012.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- ^ Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 October 2011.
- ^ 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.
External links
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