Lucerapex Explained

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

Distribution

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

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--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