Ficus (gastropod)
Ficus is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ficidae, the fig shells. [3]
This is the type genus of the family Ficidae.
Species
Species within the genus Ficus include:
- Ficus eospila (Péron & Lesueur, 1807)
- Ficus ficus Linnaeus, C., 1758[4]
- Ficus filosa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892)[5]
- Ficus gracilis (Sowerby, G.B. I, 1825)
- † Ficus holmesii Conrad, 1867[6]
- Ficus investigatoris (Smith, E. A., 1906)[7]
- Ficus lindae Petuch, 1988[8]
- Ficus papyratia (Say, 1822)[9]
- Ficus pellucida Deshayes, 1856[10]
- Ficus variegata Röding, 1798[11]
- Ficus ventricosa (Sowerby, G. B. (I), 1825)[12]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Ficus atlanticus Clench & Aguayo, 1940 : synonym of Ficus pellucida Deshayes, 1856
- Ficus carolae Clench, 1945 : synonym of Ficus papyratia carolae Clench, 1945
- Ficus communis Röding, 1798[13] : synonym of Ficus ficus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ficus ficoides (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of Ficus ficus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ficus filosus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) : synonym of Ficus filosa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892)
- Ficus howelli Clench & Aguayo, 1940 : synonym of Ficus pellucida Deshayes, 1856
- Ficus lindae Petuch, 1988 : synonym of Ficus papyratia lindae Petuch, 1988
- Ficus margaretae Iredale, 1931 : synonym of Ficus ficus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ficus pellucidus Deshayes, 1856 accepted as Ficus pellucida Deshayes, 1856
- Ficus subintermedius (d'Orbigny, 1852) : synonym of Ficus ficus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ficus tessellatus (Kobelt, 1881) : synonym of Ficus eospila (Péron & Lesueur, 1807)
- Ficus variegatus Röding, 1798 : synonym of Ficus variegata Röding, 1798
- Ficus ventricosus (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) : synonym of Ficus ventricosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Ficus villai Petuch, 1998[14] : synonym of Ficus papyratia villai Petuch, 1998
References
- Lamarck J.-B. (M. de) (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 63-91
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- Verhaeghe, M. & Poppe, G. T., 2000 A Conchological Iconography (3), The Family Ficidae