Lima (bivalve)

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]

Lima
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
Spiny fileclam, Lima lima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Limida
Family: Limidae
Genus: Lima
Bruguière, 1789

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
  • Lima attenuata (Dall, 1916)
  • Lima colorata zealandica sowerby, 1876
  • Lima excavata (Fabricius, 1779) - excavated fileclam
  • Lima floridana Olsson and Harbison, 1953 - smooth fileclam
  • Lima hians (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Lima hyperborea Jensen, 1909
  • Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758) - spiny fileclam
  • Lima locklini McGinty, 1955 - locklin fileclam, skewed fileclam
  • Lima pellucida C. B. Adams, 1846 - Antillean fileclam
  • Lima sabauriculata (Montagu, 1808)
  • Lima scabra (Born, 1778) - rough file clam (now classified as Ctenoides scaber)
  • Lima squamosa Lamarck, 1819)
  • Lima subovata (Jeffreys, 1879) - subovate fileclam
  • Lima tenera Sowerby, 1843
  • Lima tetrica Gould, 1851
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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.
  • "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
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