''Lucerapex'' is a
genus
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of
sea snails, marine
gastropod mollusk
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s in the
family
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Turridae
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, the turrids.
Distribution
This marine genus has a wide Indo-West Pacific distribution. Fossils have been in
Quaternary strata on
Timor
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and
Indonesia
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and
Miocene
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strata in
South Australia
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and
New Zealand
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Species
Species within the genus ''Lucerapex'' include:
* ''
Lucerapex adenica''
Powell, 1964
* ''
Lucerapex carola''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Lucerapex casearia''
(Hedley & Petterd, 1906)
* ''
Lucerapex cracens''
Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
* ''
Lucerapex denticulata''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Lucerapex indagatoris''
(Finlay H.J., 1927)
* ''
Lucerapex laevicarinata''
Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
* † ''
Lucerapex murndaliana''
(Tenison Woods, 1879)
* † ''
Lucerapex pulcherrimus''
(Vella, 1954)
* † ''
Lucerapex raulini''
(Peyrot, 1931)
* ''
Lucerapex schepmani''
Shuto, 1970
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Lucerapex angustatus''
(Powell, 1940):
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
* 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
External links
A.W.B. Powell, The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The subfamily Turrinae; Indo-Pacific mollusca. vol. 1 Pages: 227--346Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308Abdelkrim J., Aznar-Cormano L., Fedosov A., Kantor Y., Lozouet P., Phuong M., Zaharias P. & Puillandre N. (2018). Exon-capture based phylogeny and diversification of the venomous gastropods (Neogastropoda, Conoidea). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(10): 2355-2374 Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
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