Lucerapex schepmani
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| Lucerapex schepmani | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Lucerapex schepmani | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Lucerapex |
| Species: | L. schepmani |
| Binomial name | |
| Lucerapex schepmani Shuto, 1970 | |
Lucerapex schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.
The length of the shell attains 9.5 mm.
This species was originally described by M.M. Schepman as one specimen out of ten Surcula variabilis, but redescribed by T. Shuto. [2]
