Lima (genus)

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Lima
Spiny fileclam, Lima lima
Spiny fileclam, Lima lima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Pteriomorphia
Order: Limoida
Family: Limidae
Genus: Lima
Rafinesque, 1815
Species

See text.

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

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.

[edit] Species

  • Lima attenuata (Dall, 1916)
  • Lima colorata zealandica sowerby, 1876
  • Lima excavata (Fabricius, 1779) - excavated fileclam
  • Lima floridana Olsson and Harbison, 1953 - smooth fileclam
  • Lima hians (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Lima hyperborea Jensen, 1909
  • Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758) - spiny fileclam
  • Lima locklini McGinty, 1955 - locklin fileclam, skewed fileclam
  • Lima loscombi
  • Lima pellucida C. B. Adams, 1846 - antillean fileclam
  • Lima sabauriculata (Montagu, 1808)
  • Lima scabra (Born, 1778) - rough fileclam
  • Lima subovata (Jeffreys, 1879) - subovate fileclam
  • Lima tenera Sowerby, 1843

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