Limatula S. V. Wood 1839

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

Species

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