{{Short description|Genus of sea snails}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pomaulax japonicus.jpg | image_caption = 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 | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Pomaulax | authority = Gray, 1850{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}} | type_species = ''Trochus japonicus'' | type_species_authority = Dunker, 1845 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{center|''See text''}} }}

'''''Pomaulax''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|413355|''Pomaulax'' Gray, 1850||27 September 2012}}</ref>

== Description == The large, solid, imperforate shell has a conic shape. The periphery is carinated. The base of the shell is flattened. The umbilical tract shows a strong curved rib. The ; operculum is obovate, narrower toward the proximal extremity. Its nucleus is terminal, its outside with four strong granulose ribs radiating from the nucleus.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77914 G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia]</ref>

== Species == Species within the genus ''Pomaulax'' include:

* ''Pomaulax gibberosus'' <small>(Dillwyn, 1817)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|581670|''Pomaulax gibberosus'' (Dillwyn, 1817)||5 October 2011}}</ref> * ''Pomaulax japonicus'' <small>(Dunker, 1844)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|413418|''Pomaulax japonicus'' (Dunker, 1844)||20 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Pomaulax spiratus'' <small>(Dall, 1911)</small>

;Species brought into synonymy:

* ''Pomaulax turbanicus'' <small>Dall, 1910</small>: synonym of ''Megastraea turbanica'' <small>(Dall, 1910)</small> * ''Pomaulax undosum'' <small>Wood, 1828</small>: synonym of ''Megastraea undosa'' <small>(Wood, 1828)</small>

== References == {{Reflist}} * Williams, S.T. (2007). ''Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae)''. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592. * 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.&nbsp;1–82, pls 104-245.

== External links == * {{Commons category-inline|Pomaulax|''Pomaulax''}}

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Category:Pomaulax Category:Turbinidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray