Limatula

Limatula
Scientific classification
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

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

Species[]

• Dall, 1916 - attenuate fileclam
• Limatula aupouria Powell, 1937
• (E. A. Smith, 1885) - confusing fileclam
• (Sykes, 1903)
• Olsson and McGinty, 1958 - henderson fileclam, minute fileclam
• Limatula hodgsoni (E. A. Smith, 1907)
• A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - ahyaline fileclam, hyaline fileclam
• A. S. Jensen, 1909 - Arctic fileclam, boreal fileclam
• A. Adams, 1864 - Japan fileclam
• Limatula maoria Finlay, 1927
• A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - aregular fileclam, regular fileclam
• Bernard, 1978 - Saturna fileclam, saturnine fileclam
• Dall, 1886 - bristly fileclam
• (Dall, 1908) - furrowless fileclam
• Limatula subauriculata (Montagu, 1808) - small-ear fileclam
• (Jeffreys, 1876)
• (Brown, 1827)
• Limatula suteri Dall, 1908
• Bernard, 1978 - Vancouver fileclam

Species brought into synonymy

• Limatula pygmaea (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Limea pygmaea (Philippi, 1845)

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