Limaria

Limaria
	Two live Limaria hians in Loch Carron, Scotland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Pteriomorphia
Order:	Limoida
Family:	Limidae
Genus:	Limaria; Searles-Wood, 1839
Species
	See text

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

Description

Shells of species in this genus are thin. The valves are swollen and the shells gape at both ends. There are no teeth on the hinge line. When alive, these species can be recognized by the fact that the soft tissues are red and a large number of tentacles are visible beyond the edges of the shell.

Species

The following species are found within the genus Limaria according to the World Register of Marine Species:^[1]

Limaria africana (Bartsch, 1915)
Limaria amakusaensis (Habe, 1960)
Limaria angustata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1872)
Limaria arcuata Turton, 1932
Limaria auaua (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Limaria basilanica (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Limaria cumingii (G.B. Sowerby II, 1843)
Limaria dentata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1843)
Limaria fenestrata (Prashad, 1932)
Limaria fragilis (Gmelin, 1791)
Limaria hakodatensis (Tokunaga, 1906)
Limaria hawaiana (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Limaria hemphilli (Hertlein & Strong, 1946)
Limaria hians (Gmelin, 1791)
Limaria hirasei (Pilsbry, 1901)
Limaria hyalina (Verrill & Bush, 1898)
Limaria keohea (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)

Limaria kiiensis (Oyama, 1943)
Limaria lahaina (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Limaria locklini (McGinty, 1955)
Limaria loscombi (G. B. Sowerby, I, 1823)
Limaria orbignyi (Lamy, 1930)
Limaria orientalis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Limaria pacifica (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Limaria parallela (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Limaria pellucida (C. B. Adams, 1846) - Antillean fileclam
Limaria perfragilis (Habe & Kosuge, 1966)
Limaria rotundata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1843)
Limaria stertum (Iredale, 1939)
Limaria thryptica (Penna-Neme, 1971)
Limaria tuberculata (Olivi, 1792)
Limaria valdiviesae F. R. Bernard, 1988
Limaria viali (Jousseaume in Lamy, 1920)

References

^ Gofas, Serge (2010). "Limaria Link, 1807". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-04-20.

"Limaria". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

[WoRMS-1] Gofas, Serge (2010). "Limaria Link, 1807". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-04-20.

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