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Lucerapex

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Lucerapex
Shell of Lucerapex cracens (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this 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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Synonyms[1]

Mitromorpha (Lovellona) Iredale, 1917

Lucerapex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Distribution

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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

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Species within the genus Lucerapex include:

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)

References

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  • Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • J. J. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
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