Family FICIDAE Meek, 1864 (1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ficidae Meek, F.B. 1864. Check list of the invertebrate fossils of North America. Miocene`. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 7(183): ii + 32 pp. [19] [Although Meek did not state explicitly his reasons for establishing the name Ficidae, he used it in place of Pyrulidae Swainson, 1840, based on Pyrula Lamarck, 1799. Ficidae is now in prevailing usage and it is conserved under Art. 40.2, with the precedence over Pyrulidae].

  Type genus:

   Ficus Röding, 1798.
• Pyrulinae Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [307].

  Type genus:

   Pyrula Lamarck, 1799.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.P., Hausdorf, B., Kaim, A., Kano, Y., Nützel, A., Parkhaev, P., Schrödl, M. & Strong, E.E. 2017. Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia 61(1-2): 1–526 [347]

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [250]

Neo, M.L. 2010. The taxonomic status of fig shells, with notes on Ficus varieagata (Röding, 1798) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ficoidea: Ficidae). Nature in Singapore 3: 117-123 [117-122]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [235]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [72, pl. 49]

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