Lucerapex

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Lucerapex
Lucerapex cracens (MNHN-IM-2009-18966).jpeg
Shell of Lucerapex cracens (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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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 caseariaHedley & Petterd, 1906
Species

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Synonyms [1]

Mitromorpha (Lovellona)Iredale, 1917

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

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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:

Species brought into synonymy

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