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
Species
See text

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:

• 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)