| Ficus ventricosus | |
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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. ventricosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ficus ventricosus (Sowerby I, 1825) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pyrula ventricosa Sowerby, G. B. (I), 1825 |
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Ficus ventricosus, common name : the Swollen Fig Shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ficidae, the fig shells.[1]
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The shell size varies between 70 mm and 150 mm
This species is distributed in the Sea of Cortèz along Mexico and in the Pacific Ocean along Peru.