Pomaulax japonicus

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Pomaulax japonicus
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
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Subfamily: Turbininae
Genus: Pomaulax
Species: P. japonicus
Binomial name
Pomaulax japonicus
(Dunker, 1844)
Synonyms[1]

Trochus japonicus (Dunker, 1845)

Pomaulax japonicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Description

Distribution

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pomaulax japonicus (Dunker, 1844).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 September 2012.
  • 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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