Lima (bivalve)
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
- Lima colorata zealandica sowerby, 1876
- Lima excavata - excavated fileclam
- Lima floridana Olsson and Harbison, 1953 - smooth fileclam
- Lima hians
- Lima hyperborea Jensen, 1909
- Lima lima - spiny fileclam
- Lima locklini McGinty, 1955 - locklin fileclam, skewed fileclam
- Lima pellucida C. B. Adams, 1846 - Antillean fileclam
- Lima sabauriculata
- Lima scabra - rough file clam
- Lima squamosa Lamarck, 1819)
- Lima subovata - subovate fileclam
- Lima tenera Sowerby, 1843
- Lima tetrica Gould, 1851
