Pomaulax japonicus
| Pomaulax japonicus | |
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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  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Pomaulax |
| Species: | P. japonicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pomaulax japonicus (Dunker, 1844) | |
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Pomaulax japonicus, the Japanese star shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
Description
The size of the shell attains 90 mm. The large, imperforate shell has a depressed-conic shape. It is pale yellowish. The six whorls are planulate above, and obliquely tuberculate-plicate. The periphery is expanded, compressed, carinated, bearing wide nodose spines. The base of the shell is planulate, with concentric tuberculate lirae. The white umbilical tract is , callous and depressed. The aperture is transversely dilated, subrhomboidal, and angulate. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan and Korea.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pomaulax japonicus (Dunker, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 September 2012.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Astralium japonicum)
- 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.