Pleurotomaria yokoyamai Hayasaka is a remarkably large gastropod commonly found in the middle Permian allochthonous Akasaka Limestone of central Japan. Its supraspecific systematics have however been unsettled. Examination of a museum collection and newly obtained material reveal previously unreported shell characteristics such as the presence of a long labral slit in the outer lip and a slit-like umbilicus surrounded by an accretionally growing callus pad. On the basis of these and previously known shell characters, a new genus Nipponomaria is proposed. We include Pleurotomaria? anatolica Enderle from the Permian anthracolithic limestone of northwestern Turkey as a member of this new genus.