Limatula

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

Limatula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Limida
Superfamily: Limoidea
Family: Limidae
Genus: Limatula
Searles-Wood, 1839
Type species
Pecten subauriculatus Montagu, 1808
Species

See text

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

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

References
  • "Limatula". 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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