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Lima (genus)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Limidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Genus

Order
  
Limoida

Scientific name
  
Lima

Higher classification
  
Limidae

Subclass
  
Pteriomorphia

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Lower classifications
  
Flame scallop, Lima colorata zealandica

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.

Species

  • 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 pellucida C. B. Adams, 1846 - Antillean fileclam
  • Lima sabauriculata (Montagu, 1808)
  • Lima scabra (Born, 1778) - rough file clam (now classified as Ctenoides scaber)
  • Lima squamosa Lamarck, 1819)
  • Lima subovata (Jeffreys, 1879) - subovate fileclam
  • Lima tenera Sowerby, 1843
  • Lima tetrica Gould, 1851

    • References

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