Lima (bivalve)

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Lima
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
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Spiny fileclam, Lima lima
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Limida
Superfamily: Limoidea
Family: Limidae
Genus: Lima
Bruguière, 1789
Type species
Lima albaCuvier, 1797
Synonyms
  • AustrolimaIredale, 1929
  • FukamaKilburn, 1998
  • Lima (Lima)Bruguière, 1797· accepted, alternate representation
  • Lima (Mantellum)Röding, 1798
  • LimariaRafinesque, 1815 (invalid: unnecessary substitute name for Lima and junior homonym of Limaria Link, 1807)
  • MantellumRöding, 1798
  • MeotolimaOyama, 1943
  • RadulaMörch, 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.

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References

  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.