Lima (genus)
| Lima Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent | |
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| Spiny fileclam, Lima lima | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Pteriomorphia |
| Order: | Limoida |
| Family: | Limidae |
| Genus: | Lima Bruguière, 1789 |
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]
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
- 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 pellucida C. B. Adams, 1846 - Antillean fileclam
- Lima sabauriculata (Montagu, 1808)
- Lima scabra (Born, 1778) - rough fileclam
- Lima squamosa Lamarck, 1819)
- Lima subovata (Jeffreys, 1879) - subovate fileclam
- Lima tenera Sowerby, 1843
- Lima tetrica Gould, 1851
References
- ↑ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Altantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 32.
- "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