Genus Ficus Röding, 1798

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Genus Ficus Röding, 1798

Ficus Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [148].
Type species:
Ficus communis Röding, 1798 by original designation (by tautonymy [Bulla ficus cited in synonymy of Ficus communis Röding]; = Murex ficus Linnaeus, 1758).
Pyrula Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet de 1799. Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification de coquilles, comprenent une réaction appropiée de charactères génériques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 63-91 [May 1799] [73] ["Pyrula Link, 1807" [Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock, 3: 116] is listed in Neave, 1940, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 3: 1064, as a separate name, but Link explicitly attributed Pyrula to Lamarck. Senior objective synonym of Sycotypus. See also Pirula, Hallirhea and Rapa Scudder, 1882].
Type species:
Pyrula ficus Lamarck, 1799 by original designation (Bouchet lists Murex ficus Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy?).
Ficula 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 species:
Ficula ficus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation.
Sycotypus Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32. [135].
Type species:
Sycotypus ficus Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.

Distribution

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New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)