Lucerapex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
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| Shell of Lucerapex cracens (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Mitromorpha (Lovellona) Iredale, 1917 | |
Distribution
editThis 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
editSpecies 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)
References
edit- ^ a b Lucerapex Wenz, 1943. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- ^ Lucerapex adenica Powell, 1964. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- ^ Lucerapex carola (Thiele, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- ^ Lucerapex casearia (Hedley & Petterd, 1906). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- ^ Lucerapex denticulata (Thiele, 1925). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- ^ Lucerapex indagatoris (Finlay H.J., 1927). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- ^ Lucerapex schepmani Shuto, 1970. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- ^ Lucerapex angustatus (Powell, 1940). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
- 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
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- A.W.B. Powell, The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The subfamily Turrinae; Indo-Pacific mollusca. vol. 1 Pages: 227--346
- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
- Abdelkrim 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.
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Turridae
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