| Pomaulax gibberosus | |
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| 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 |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Subfamily: | Turbininae |
| Genus: | Pomaulax |
| Species: | P. gibberosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pomaulax gibberosus (Dillwyn, 1817) |
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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]
This species lives in the Eastern Pacific, from British Columbia, Canada, to Baja California, Mexico.