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]
| Lima Temporal range:
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| Spiny fileclam, Lima lima | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Limida |
| Superfamily: | Limoidea |
| Family: | Limidae |
| Genus: | Lima Bruguière, 1789 |
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| Lima alba Cuvier, 1797 | |
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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
edit- Lima attenuata (Dall, 1916)
- † Lima becki C. A. Fleming, 1955
- Lima benthonimbifer Iredale, 1925
- Lima bullifera Deshayes in Maillard, 1863
- Lima caribaea d'Orbigny, 1853
- † Lima carolina d'Orbigny, 1850
- † Lima colorata Hutton, 1873
- † Lima crenulicosa Roemer, 1849[3]
- Lima disalvoi Raines, 2002
- Lima fujitai Oyama, 1943
- Lima hyperborea Jensen, 1909
- Lima kimthachi Thach, 2016
- Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758) - spiny fileclam
- Lima marioni P. Fischer, 1882
- Lima messura (Kilburn, 1998)
- Lima nakayasui Habe, 1987
- Lima nasca (F. R. Bernard, 1988)
- Lima nimbifer Iredale, 1924
- Lima ogasawaraensis Habe, 1993
- † Lima paleata Hutton, 1873
- Lima paucicostata G. B. Sowerby II, 1843
- Lima quantoensis Yokoyama, 1920
- † Lima robini C. A. Fleming, 1950
- Lima sagamiensis Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, 1971
- Lima sabauriculata (Montagu, 1808)
- Lima spectata (Iredale, 1929)
- Lima tahitensis E. A. Smith, 1885
- Lima tetrica Gould, 1851
- Lima tomlini Prashad, 1932
- Lima tropicalis (Iredale, 1939)
- † Lima vasis Marwick, 1928
- Lima vulgaris (Link, 1807)
- Lima vulgatula Yokoyama, 1922
- † Lima wacoensis Roemer, 1849
- † Lima waipipiensis P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1919
- † Lima watersi Marwick, 1926
- Lima zealandica G. B. Sowerby III, 1877
- Lima zushiensis Yokoyama, 1920
- Synonyms
- Lima colorata zealandica sowerby, 1876: synonym of Lima zealandica G. B. Sowerby III, 1877
- Lima excavata (Fabricius, 1779) - excavated fileclam: synonym of Acesta excavata (Fabricius, 1779)
- Lima floridana Olsson and Harbison, 1953 - smooth fileclam: synonym of Ctenoides mitis (Lamarck, 1807)
- Lima hians (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Limaria hians (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lima locklini McGinty, 1955 - locklin fileclam, skewed fileclam: synonym of Limaria locklini (McGinty, 1955)
- Lima pellucida C. B. Adams, 1846 - Antillean fileclam: synonym of Limaria pellucida (C. B. Adams, 1848)
- Lima scabra (Born, 1778) - rough file clam: synonym of Ctenoides scaber (Born, 1778)
- Lima squamosa Lamarck, 1819): synonym of Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lima subovata (Jeffreys, 1879) - subovate fileclam: synonym of Limatula subovata (Monterosato, 1875)
- Lima tenera G.B. Sowerby II, 1843: synonym of Ctenoides mitis (Lamarck, 1807)
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ Roemer, F. (1849). Texas : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes nach eigener Beobachtung. A. Marcus.
- "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