Limaria

Taxobox
name = "Limaria"


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

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

The shells are thin, inequilateral, moderately inflated, gaping both anteriorly and posteriorly. The hinge is edentulous (without hinge teeth).

The soft parts are usually bright red, and many tentacles protrude from the open valves.

pecies within the genus "Limaria"

* "Limaria hians" (Gmelin, 1791)
* "Limaria loscombi" (G. B. Sowerby, I, 1823)
* "Limaria orientalis" (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
* "Limaria pellucida" (C. B. Adams, 1846) - Antillean 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