Limatula
| Limatula | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Pteriomorphia |
| Order: | Limoida |
| Family: | Limidae |
| Genus: | Limatula Searles-Wood, 1839 |
| Species | |
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Limatula, the file shells or file clams, is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Limidae.
Species
- Limatula attenuata Dall, 1916 - attenuate fileclam
- Limatula aupouria Powell, 1937
- Limatula confusa (E. A. Smith, 1885) - confusing fileclam
- Limatula gwyni (Sykes, 1903)
- Limatula hendersoni Olsson and McGinty, 1958 - henderson fileclam, minute fileclam
- Limatula hyalina A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - ahyaline fileclam, hyaline fileclam
- Limatula hyperborea A. S. Jensen, 1909 - Arctic fileclam, boreal fileclam
- Limatula japonica A. Adams, 1864 - Japan fileclam
- Limatula maoria Finlay, 1927
- Limatula regularis A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - aregular fileclam, regular fileclam
- Limatula saturna Bernard, 1978 - Saturna fileclam, saturnine fileclam
- Limatula setifera Dall, 1886 - bristly fileclam
- Limatula similaris (Dall, 1908) - furrowless fileclam
- Limatula subauriculata (Montagu, 1808) - small-ear fileclam
- Limatula subovata (Jeffreys, 1876)
- Limatula sulcata (Brown, 1827)
- Limatula suteri Dall, 1908
- Limatula vancouverensis Bernard, 1978 - Vancouver fileclam
- Species brought into synonymy
- Limatula pygmaea (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Limea pygmaea (Philippi, 1845)
References
- "Limatula". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1