Lucerapex
Genus of gastropods
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Lucerapex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
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| Lucerapex | |
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| Shell of Lucerapex cracens (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
Distribution
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
Species
Species within the genus Lucerapex include:
- Lucerapex adenica Powell, 1964[2]
- Lucerapex carola (Thiele, 1925)[3]
- Lucerapex casearia (Hedley & Petterd, 1906)[4]
- Lucerapex cracens Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
- Lucerapex denticulata (Thiele, 1925)[5]
- Lucerapex indagatoris (Finlay H.J., 1927)[6]
- Lucerapex laevicarinata Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
- † Lucerapex murndaliana (Tenison Woods, 1879)
- † Lucerapex pulcherrimus (Vella, 1954)
- † Lucerapex raulini (Peyrot, 1931)
- Lucerapex schepmani Shuto, 1970[7]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lucerapex angustatus (Powell, 1940):[8] synonym of Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940)
- Lucerapex laevicarinatus Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018: synonym of Lucerapex laevicarinata Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018 (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
