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
Limatulidae Kasum-Zade, 2003 · unaccepted
Radulidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 · unaccepted
- Genus Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858
- Genus Acestarica Dekkers, 2022
- Genus Ctenoides Mörch, 1853
- Genus Divarilima A. W. B. Powell, 1958
- Genus Escalima Iredale, 1929
- Genus Lima Bruguière, 1797
- Genus Limaria Link, 1807
- Genus Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
- Genus Limea Bronn, 1831
- Subfamily Liminae Rafinesque, 1815
- Genus Mantellina Sacco, 1904
- Genus Antarctolima Habe, 1977 accepted as Limatula (Antarctolima) Habe, 1977 represented as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
- Genus Austrolima Iredale, 1929 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Fukama Kilburn, 1998 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797
- Genus Gemellima Iredale, 1929 accepted as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
- Genus Isolimea Iredale, 1929 accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Limaea [sic] accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (incorrect subsequent spelling of Limea by Gray, 1847)
- Subfamily Limariinae Rafinesque, 1815 accepted as Limidae Rafinesque, 1815 (unaccepted > unjustified emendation)
- Genus Limatulella Sacco, 1898 accepted as Limaria (Limatulella) Sacco, 1898 represented as Limaria Link, 1807 (superseded combination)
- Genus Limatuletta C. A. Fleming, 1978 accepted as Limatula (Limatuletta) C. A. Fleming, 1978 represented as Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839
- Genus Limoarca Münster, 1832 accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Mantellum Röding, 1798 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797 (A junior objective synonym of Lima)
- Genus Notolimea Iredale, 1924 accepted as Limea Bronn, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Radula Mörch, 1853 accepted as Lima Bruguière, 1797 (unaccepted > junior homonym, of Radula Gray, 1842)
- 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)
- 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]
page(s): 147 [details]
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
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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]
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]
page(s): 62, 88 [details] Available for editors
[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]
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]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Remark Family Limidae in separate superfamily 'Limacea' in Sheppard 1984 [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | vijlschelpen | [details] |
| English | file shellsfile clams | [details] |
| German | Feilenmuscheln | [details] |
| Japanese | ミノガイ科 | [details] |
| Swedish | filmusslor | [details] |
