''Lima zealandica'' is a species of

bivalve Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the family Limidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lima zealandica G. B. Sowerby III, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505464 on 2021-05-08

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

* Marwick, J. (1924). Palaeontological notes on some Pliocene Mollusca from Hawke's Bay. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 55: 191-201. * Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 * Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch * Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM * Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

EDxternal links

Sowerby, G. B., III. (1877). Descriptions of six new species of shells from the collections of the Marchioness Paulucci and Dr. Prevost. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1876: 752-755, pl. 75.
{{Taxonbar, from1=Q13762919, from2=Q6548841 Limidae Bivalves of New Zealand Molluscs described in 1877