WoRMS taxon details

Limidae Rafinesque, 1815

1778  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1778)

accepted
Family
Limaria Rafinesque, 1815 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797 (type by original designation)
Limariidae Rafinesque, 1815 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation
Limariinae Rafinesque, 1815 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation

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  1. Genus Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858
  2. Genus Acestarica Dekkers, 2022
  3. Genus Ctenoides Mörch, 1853
  4. Genus Divarilima A. W. B. Powell, 1958
  5. Genus Escalima Iredale, 1929
  6. Genus Lima Bruguière, 1797
  7. Genus Limaria Link, 1807
  8. Genus Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
  9. Genus Limea Bronn, 1831
  10. Subfamily Liminae Rafinesque, 1815
  11. Genus Mantellina Sacco, 1904
  12. Genus Antarctolima Habe, 1977 accepted as Limatula (Antarctolima) Habe, 1977 represented as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
  13. Genus Austrolima Iredale, 1929 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  14. Genus Fukama Kilburn, 1998 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797
  15. Genus Gemellima Iredale, 1929 accepted as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
  16. Genus Isolimea Iredale, 1929 accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  17. Genus Limaea [sic] accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (incorrect subsequent spelling of Limea by Gray, 1847)
  18. Subfamily Limariinae Rafinesque, 1815 accepted as Limidae Rafinesque, 1815 (unaccepted > unjustified emendation)
  19. Genus Limatulella Sacco, 1898 accepted as Limaria (Limatulella) Sacco, 1898 represented as Limaria Link, 1807 (superseded combination)
  20. Genus Limatuletta C. A. Fleming, 1978 accepted as Limatula (Limatuletta) C. A. Fleming, 1978 represented as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
  21. Genus Limoarca Münster, 1832 accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  22. Genus Mantellum Röding, 1798 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797 (A junior objective synonym of Lima)
  23. Genus Notolimea Iredale, 1924 accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  24. Genus Radula Mörch, 1853 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797 (unaccepted > junior homonym, of Radula Gray, 1842)
  25. Genus Squamilima C. A. Fleming, 1978 accepted as Antarctolima Habe, 1977 accepted as Limatula (Antarctolima) Habe, 1977 represented as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839 (objective synonym)
  26. Genus Stabilima Iredale, 1939 accepted as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Limariinae Rafinesque, 1815) Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). <i>Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés</i>. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 147 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1778 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclature

original description (of Limatulidae Kasum-Zade, 2003) Kasum-Zade, A. A. (2003). Sostoyaniye izuchennosti mezozoyskikh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov Azerbaydzhana (Otryad Pectinoida: reviziya i sistematika) [Advances in research of Mesozoic bivalve mollusks in Azerbaijan (Order Pectinoida: revision and systematics)]. El-ALIiance, Baku, 112 pp.
page(s): 62, 88 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Limariinae Rafinesque, 1815) Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). <i>Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés</i>. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 147 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details] 

Other

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details] 

additional source Stuardo J. (1968). On the phylogeny, taxonomy and distribution of the Limidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). PhD thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 327 pp. [An unpublished work in the sense of the ICZN]. [details] 

additional source Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). <i>Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile</i>. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp.
page(s): 182 [details] 

additional source Lamy E. (1930-1931). Révision des Limidae vivants du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 74(1): 89-114; 74(2): 169-198, pl. 1 [1930]; 245-269 [1931]., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55680574?rk=42918;4 ; https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5568058j?rk=64378;0 ; https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5568059z?rk=21459;2 [details] 

 
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Remark Family Limidae in separate superfamily 'Limacea' in Sheppard 1984 [details]
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