Lima (bivalve)

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)

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]

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

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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

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  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
  3. ^ Roemer, F. (1849). Texas : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes nach eigener Beobachtung. A. Marcus.
  • "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