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; Lithopoma gibberosa (Dillwyn, 1817); Lithopoma gibberosum (Dillwyn, 1817); 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

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