| Lima Temporal range: | |
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| Spiny fileclam, Lima lima | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Limida |
| Superfamily: | Limoidea |
| Family: | Limidae |
| Genus: | Lima Bruguière, 1789 |
| Type species | |
| Lima albaCuvier, 1797 | |
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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.