Species Lucerapex casearia (Hedley & Petterd, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleurotoma casearia Hedley, C. & Petterd, W.P. 1906. Mollusca from three hundred fathoms, off Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 211-225 [220, pl. 37, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.24457 dry, 23 mls east of South Head, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0'S,151°41'31.2'E].

Generic Combinations

• Leucosyrinx casearia (Hedley & Petterd, 1906). —
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [226]
• Lucerapex casearia (Hedley & Petterd, 1906). —
  Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12. [8, pl. 1, fig. 15]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathyal, continental rise, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 457 m

General References

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [226]

Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12. [8, pl. 1, fig. 15]

Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346 [285, pl. 219]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [184]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [194]

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