Pomaulax gibberosus

Pomaulax gibberosus, common name the red turban, is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Pomaulax gibberosus
Shell of Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817), measuring 32.8 mm height by 42.6 mm in diameter, collected off San Pedro, in California
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Pomaulax
Species:
P. gibberosus
Binomial name
Pomaulax gibberosus
(Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms[1]
  • Astraea gibberosa
  • Astraea (Pachypoma) inaequalis var. pacifica Dall, 1919
  • Astraea guadalupeana Berry, 1957
  • Lithopoma gibberosa (Dillwyn, 1817)
  • Lithopoma gibberosum (Dillwyn, 1817)
  • Pachypoma inaequale Dall, 1909
  • Trochus gibberosus Dillwyn, 1817 (basionym)
  • Trochus ochraceus Philippi, 1846
  • Trochus tectumchinense Noodt, 1819

Distribution

This species lives in the Eastern Pacific, from British Columbia, Canada, to Baja California, Mexico.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581670 on 2011-11-09
  • Noodt J. (1819) Museum Boltenianum: Verzeichnis der von dem gestorbenen J.F. Bolten... hinterlassenen vortrefflichen Sammlung Conchylien, Mineralien und Kunstsachen die am 26. April d.J., Morgens um 10 Uhr öffentlich verkauft werden sollen durch den Makler J. Noodt. Conrad Müller, Hamburg
  • Philippi R.A. 1846. Diagnoses testaceorum quorundam novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, 1846(7): 97-106

Further reading
  • Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 page(s): 59
  • 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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