Pomaulax gibberosus

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
Domain:	Eukaryota
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
	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;

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]

Distribution

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

Pomaulax gibberosus, the shell encrusted with the red coralline alga Lithothamnion
Pomaulax gibberosus
A live specimen of Pomaulax gibberosus

^ ^a ^b 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