Lima (bivalve)

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Lima is a genus of file shells or file clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Limidae, the file shells, within the subclass Pteriomorphia.[1] [2]

Lima
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
Spiny fileclam, Lima lima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Limida
Superfamily: Limoidea
Family: Limidae
Genus: Lima
Bruguière, 1789
Type species
Lima alba Cuvier, 1797
Synonyms
  • Austrolima Iredale, 1929
  • Fukama Kilburn, 1998
  • Lima (Lima) Bruguière, 1797· accepted, alternate representation
  • Lima (Mantellum) Röding, 1798
  • Limaria Rafinesque, 1815 (invalid: unnecessary substitute name for Lima and junior homonym of Limaria Link, 1807)
  • Mantellum Röding, 1798
  • Meotolima Oyama, 1943
  • Radula Mörch, 1853 (invalid: junior homonym of Radula Gray, 1842)

The shells are obliquely trigonal, and strongly radially ribbed, the ribs scabrous to spinose.

The soft parts are bright red and many tentacles protrude from the open valves.

Species edit

Synonyms
  • Lima colorata zealandica sowerby, 1876: synonym of Lima zealandica G. B. Sowerby III, 1877
  • Lima excavata (Fabricius, 1779) - excavated fileclam: synonym of Acesta excavata (Fabricius, 1779)
  • Lima floridana Olsson and Harbison, 1953 - smooth fileclam: synonym of Ctenoides mitis (Lamarck, 1807)
  • Lima hians (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Limaria hians (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Lima locklini McGinty, 1955 - locklin fileclam, skewed fileclam: synonym of Limaria locklini (McGinty, 1955)
  • Lima pellucida C. B. Adams, 1846 - Antillean fileclam: synonym of Limaria pellucida (C. B. Adams, 1848)
  • Lima scabra (Born, 1778) - rough file clam: synonym of Ctenoides scaber (Born, 1778)
  • Lima squamosa Lamarck, 1819): synonym of Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lima subovata (Jeffreys, 1879) - subovate fileclam: synonym of Limatula subovata (Monterosato, 1875)
  • Lima tenera G.B. Sowerby II, 1843: synonym of Ctenoides mitis (Lamarck, 1807)

References edit

  1. ^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 32.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lima Bruguière, 1797. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138125 on 2021-05-08
  • "Lima". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1