Divarilima

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title: "Divarilima" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["limidae", "bivalve-genera", "taxa-described-in-1958", "taxa-named-by-arthur-william-baden-powell"] description: "Genus of bivalves" topic_path: "general/limidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divarilima" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of bivalves ::

|taxon = Divarilima | image = Divarilima albicoma (Dall, 1886) Collection Natural History Museum Rotterdam NMR993000016239.jpg | image_caption = Divarilima albicoma |authority = Powell, 1958 |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = |type_species= Lima sydneyensis |display_parents= 3

Divarilima is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Limidae, the file shells or file clams.

Description

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Divarilima_albicoma.png" caption="Illustration of ''D. albicoma'' by [William Healey Dall ]"] ::

In the original description, Powell described the genus as below:

Members of the genus are small, trigonally ovate, strongly inequilateral, and have sharp. backward-pointing umbones. The anterodorsal outline almost straight, extended, coinciding with well-marked a umbonal ridge which borders a concave lunule.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by A. W. B. Powell in 1958, who named Lima sydneyensis as the type species of the genus. The genus is in the family Limidae.

Distribution

Divarilima is found in oceans across the globe, including waters near Japan, the western Atlantic, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Species

Species within the genus Divarilima include:

• Divarilima abscisa (Barnard, 1964)
• Divarilima albicoma (Dall, 1886)
• † Divarilima aucklandensis (Laws, 1950)
• Divarilima elegans Hayami & Kase, 1993
• Divarilima handini J. Gibson-Smith & W. Gibson-Smith, 1982
• Divarilima iwaotakii (T. Habe, 1961)
• Divarilima sydneyensis (Hedley, 1904)

References

References

1. {{WRMS species. 415317. ''Divarilima'' A. W. B. Powell, 1958. 2 October 2025
2. {{cite Q. Q58676766
3. (1969). "Treatise on invertebrate Paleontology". [[Geological Society of America]].
4. (1990). "New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca". New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin.
5. {{cite Q. Q94767090
6. {{WRMS species. 829997. ''Divarilima aucklandensis'' (Laws, 1950) †. 2 October 2025

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