Identidad taxonómica
- Scientific name
- Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.
- Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
- Opuntia ficus-indica
- Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
- (L.) Mill.
- Common names
- Sweet Pickle, Tuna Cactus, Barbary fig, Barbary-fig, Barberry Fig, Cochineal Fig, Common Prickly Pear, English Prickly-Pear, Indian fig opuntia, Indian-Fig, Indian-fig prickly-pear, Irish-Mittens, Pest Prickly Pear, Prickly Pear Cactus, Prickly pear, Sour Prickly-Pear, Sweet Prickly Pear, White Tungy, cactus pear, mission cactus, mission prickly-pear, prickly-pear, smooth mountain prickly-pear, smooth prickly-pear, spineless cactus, sweet prickly-pear, tuberous prickly-pear, Indian fig
Names in other languages (96)
Arumbeba-cuí, Arumbeba-de-palma-rajada, Bajtar ta' Gindja, Bajtar tax-xewk, Chumbeira, Feigenkaktus, Fico d'India, Figavaisė opuncija, Figenkaktus, Figueira-da-índia, Figuera de moro, Figuier de Barbarie, Franċiż, Frenk inciri, Gewöhnlicher Feigenkaktus, Gewöhnlicher Feigenkaktus (DE), Indiaansche vij, Indiaanse turksvy, Indian Fig Prickly Pear, Ingliż, Isfar, Mission Cactus (EN), Nopal, Nopal blanco, Nopal de Castilla, Nopal de Castilla (ES), Nopal oreja de elefante, Oponce figuier de Barbarie, Oponce figuier de Barbarie, Figue de Barbarie, Cactus, Figuier de Barbarie, Raquette, Figuier d'Inde, Oponce figuier de Barbarie, Figuier de Barbarie, Figuier d'Inde, Oponce figuier de Barbarie, Figuier de Barbarie, Figuier d'Inde, Opuntia figuier de Barbarie, Opuncja figowa, Opuntia figuier de Barbarie, Palma-dos-pampas, Palmatória-de-fruto-vermelho, Smooth Mountain Prickly Pear, Tabaibeira, Tuberous Prickly Pear (EN), Tuna Mansa (EN), Tuna Spañó, Tuna de Castilla, Turksvy, Vijgcactus, bobbejaansturksvy, boereturksvy, boerturksvy, chumba, chumbera, doringblad, engelseturksvy, figo-da-Espanha, figo-da-Índia, figueira-da-Barbária, figuier d'Inde, fikenkaktus, fikonkaktus, fragkosykia, gewone turksvy, grootdoringturksvy, higuera, higuera chumba, jamaracá, jurumbeba, kaalblad, közönséges fügekaktusz, mannetjiesturksvy, mudorofia, munanazi, nopal pelón, opuncia figová, opuncie mexická, orelha-de-onça, palma, palma-de-gado, palma-gigante, palmatória, panini, papoutsosytzia, smokvova opuncija, truksvy, tuksvy, tuna, tuna mansa, umthelekisi, viikunaopuntia, wyfieturksvy, Οπουντία η ινδική συκή, Φραγκοσυκιά, Опунция индийская, Опунция инжирная, צבר מצוי, تين شوكي, صبير التين الهندي, ウチワサボテン, 梨果仙人掌, 선인장 - Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
- Plantae
- Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
- Tracheophyta
- Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
- Magnoliopsida
- Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
- Caryophyllales
- Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
- Cactaceae
- Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
- Opuntia
- Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
- ficus-indica
- Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
- species
- Reference species
- Opuntia ficus-indica
- Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
- accepted name
Photos and conservation status
- IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
- Not available.
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