Glossaulax Pilsbry 1929

Glossaulax is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[2]

Species

• Glossaulax draconis (Dall, 1903)
• Glossaulax epheba (Hedley, 1915)
• Glossaulax petiveriana (Récluz, 1843)
• Glossaulax reclusiana (Deshayes, 1839)
• Glossaulax reiniana (Dunker, 1877)
• † Glossaulax secunda (Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885)
• Glossaulax vesicalis (Philippi, 1849)

Species brought into synonymy

• Glossaulax aulacoglossa (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1909): synonym of Neverita aulacoglossa (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1909)
• Glossaulax bicolor (Philippi, 1849): synonym of Glossaulax petiveriana (Récluz, 1843)
• Glossaulax didyma (Röding, 1798): synonym of Neverita didyma (Röding, 1798)

Feeding habits

As is true of all naticid genera, species in this genus are carnivorous and predatory.

References

• Kilburn, R. N. (1976). A revision of the Naticidae of Southern Africa and Moçambique (Mollusca). Annals of the Natal Museum. 22: 829-884.
• Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.