''Lucerapex pulcherrimus'' is an extinct species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Turridae Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...

, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lucerapex pulcherrimus (Vella, 1954) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831510 on 2021-06-01

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct species were found in Tertiary strata from south-east Wairarapa, New Zealand.

References

* Vella, P. 1954. Tertiary Mollusca from south-east Wairarapa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 81(4):539-555, pls. 25–27.µ * Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch pulcherrimus Gastropods described in 1954 Gastropods of New Zealand {{paleo-Turridae-stub