Lima (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Lima"

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image_caption = Spiny fileclam, "Lima lima"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
subclassis = Pteriomorphia
ordo = Limoida
familia = Limidae
genus = "Lima"
genus_authority = Rafinesque, 1815
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Lima" is a genus of file shells or file clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Limidae, the file shells, within the subclass Pteriomorphia.

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.

pecies

* "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 loscombi"
* "Lima pellucida" C. B. Adams, 1846 - antillean fileclam
* "Lima sabauriculata" (Montagu, 1808)
* "Lima scabra" (Born, 1778) - rough fileclam
* "Lima subovata" (Jeffreys, 1879) - subovate fileclam
* "Lima tenera" Sowerby, 1843

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1