Limatula

Taxobox
name = "Limatula"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
subclassis = Pteriomorphia
ordo = Limoida
familia = Limidae
genus = "Limatula"
genus_authority = Searles-Wood, 1839
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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

The shells are elongately ovate, much higher than wide, equivalve and almost equilateral, thin, white, and longitudinally ribbed.

They are free swimmers on sandy bottoms, from shallow to deep water. They are widely distributed.

pecies

* "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 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 pygmaea" (Philippi, 1845)
* "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

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