''Lima'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of file shells or file clams,
marine bivalve
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the
family
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Limidae
The Limidae or file shells are members of the only family of bivalve molluscs in the order Limida. The family includes 130 living species, assigned to 10 genera. Widely distributed in all seas from shallow to deep waters, the species are usually ...
, the file shells, within the subclass Pteriomorphia.
[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]
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 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[Roemer, F. (1849). Texas : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes nach eigener Beobachtung. A. Marcus.]
* ''
Lima disalvoi
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...
''
Raines, 2002
* ''
Lima fujitai''
Oyama, 1943
* ''
Lima hyperborea''
Jensen, 1909
* ''
Lima kimthachi''
Thach, 2016
* ''
Lima lima''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
) - 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
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...
''
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
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...
''
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 Gmelin may refer to:
* Karl Christian Gmelin, Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis, Alsatica et confinium regionum cis- et transrhenania'' (1806)
* Charles Gmelin (1872–1950), British Olympic athlete
* ...
, 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
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*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
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Limidae
Extant Jurassic first appearances
Bivalve genera