Lucerapex

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| image = Lucerapex cracens (MNHN-IM-2009-18966).jpeg

| image_caption = Shell of Lucerapex cracens (holotype at MNHN, Paris)

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| taxon = Lucerapex

| authority = Wenz, 1943

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| synonyms = Mitromorpha (Lovellona) Iredale, 1917

| type_species = Pleurotoma casearia Hedley & Petterd, 1906

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Lucerapex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.{{WRMS species|432492|Lucerapex Wenz, 1943||14 April 2010}}

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 within the genus Lucerapex include:

Lucerapex adenica Powell, 1964{{WRMS species|434305|Lucerapex adenica Powell, 1964||14 April 2010}}
Lucerapex carola (Thiele, 1925){{WRMS species|434307|Lucerapex carola (Thiele, 1925)||14 April 2010}}
Lucerapex casearia (Hedley & Petterd, 1906){{WRMS species|434308|Lucerapex casearia (Hedley & Petterd, 1906)||14 April 2010}}
Lucerapex cracens Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
Lucerapex denticulata (Thiele, 1925){{WRMS species|434309|Lucerapex denticulata (Thiele, 1925)||14 April 2010}}
Lucerapex indagatoris (Finlay H.J., 1927){{WRMS species|434310|Lucerapex indagatoris (Finlay H.J., 1927)||14 April 2010}}
Lucerapex laevicarinata Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018
† Lucerapex murndaliana (Tenison Woods, 1879)
† Lucerapex pulcherrimus (Vella, 1954)
† Lucerapex raulini (Peyrot, 1931)
Lucerapex schepmani Shuto, 1970{{WRMS species|434311|Lucerapex schepmani Shuto, 1970||14 April 2010}}

;Species brought into synonymy:

Lucerapex angustatus (Powell, 1940):{{WRMS species|434306|Lucerapex angustatus (Powell, 1940)||14 April 2010}} 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)

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

[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49808714#page/1/mode/1up A.W.B. Powell, The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The subfamily Turrinae; Indo-Pacific mollusca. vol. 1 Pages: 227--346]
[http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full.pdf 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]
[https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy144 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]
[http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.]
[https://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmFamily/TURRIDAEN.htm Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Turridae]