Lucerapex

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

Lucerapex
Shell of Lucerapex cracens (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific 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
See text
Synonyms[1]
Mitromorpha (Lovellona) Iredale, 1917

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^[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)