Limatula
Genus of bivalves
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::summary Genus of bivalves ::
| image = Lima subauriculata (Sowerby).jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Limatula |authority = Searles-Wood, 1839 |type_species= Pecten subauriculatus Montagu, 1808 |synonyms_ref= |synonyms=
- Antarctolima Habe, 1977
- Gemellima Iredale, 1929
- Lima (Limatula) S. V. Wood, 1839
- Limatula (Antarctolima) Habe, 1977 accepted, alternate representation
- Limatula (Limatula) S. V. Wood, 1839 accepted, alternate representation
- Limatula (Limatuletta) C. A. Fleming, 1978 accepted, alternate representation
- Limatula (Squamilima) C. A. Fleming, 1978
- Limatula (Stabilima) Iredale, 1939 accepted, alternate representation
- Limatuletta C. A. Fleming, 1978
- Radula (Limatula) S. V. Wood, 1839
- Squamilima C. A. Fleming, 1978 (objective synonym)
- Stabilima Iredale, 1939 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text |display_parents= 3
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 hodgsoni (E. A. Smith, 1907)
- 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
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
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