| Ficus pellucida | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Ficoidea |
| Family: | Ficidae |
| Genus: | Ficus |
| Species: | F. pellucida |
| Binomial name | |
| Ficus pellucida Deshayes, 1856 |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ficus atlanticus Clench & Aguayo, 1940 |
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Ficus pellucida, common name : the Atlantic fig shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ficidae, the fig shells.[1]
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This species is distributed in the Caribbean Sea (along Cuba and Hispaniola), the Lesser Antilles and in the Atlantic Ocean from Venezuela to East Brazil.
The maximum recorded shell length is 70 mm.[2]
Minimum recorded depth is 73 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 823 m.[2]