Lucerapex
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| Lucerapex | |
|---|---|
| Shell of Lucerapex cracens (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Lucerapex Wenz, 1943 |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma casearia Hedley & Petterd, 1906 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Mitromorpha (Lovellona) Iredale, 1917 | |
Lucerapex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
This marine genus has a wide Indo-West Pacific distribution. Fossils have been in Quaternary strata on Timor and Indonesia and Miocene strata in South Australia and New Zealand