RAMS taxon details

Limatula ovalis (Thiele, 1912)

197228  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:197228)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Limida (Order)
  8. Limoidea (Superfamily)
  9. Limidae (Family)
  10. Limatula (Genus)
  11. Limatula ovalis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Thiele, J. (1912). Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903, im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse.</em> 13, Zoologie 5(2): 185-285, pls 11-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11631552
page(s): 226, pl. XVII, fig. 5 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limatula ovalis (Thiele, 1912). Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/RAMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197228 on 2026-04-27
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Limatula ovalis (Thiele, 1912). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rAMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197228 on 2026-04-27
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2006-03-03 15:46:48Z
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2010-09-23 10:34:21Z
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Huber, Markus
2013-01-02 20:18:23Z
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Bouchet, Philippe

original description (of ) Thiele, J. (1912). Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903, im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse.</em> 13, Zoologie 5(2): 185-285, pls 11-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11631552
page(s): 226, pl. XVII, fig. 5 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

basis of record Engl, W. (2012). <i>Shells of Antarctica</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp. [details] 

additional source Egorova, E. (1982). Biological results of the Soviet Antarctic expeditions, 7. Molluscs of the Davis Sea [Егорова Э.Н. Результаты биологических исследований советских антарктических экспедиций. Вып. 7. Моллюски моря Дейвиса (Восточная Антарктика)]. <em>Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas [Исследования фауны морей].</em> 26(34): 1-142 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.me/shipunov/school/books/egorova1982_moll_morja_dejvisa_ifm_26_34.djvu, https://www.zin.ru/publications/explorations/Vol_26(34)_Egorova_1982.pdf
page(s): 66, fig. 289, 290 [details] 

additional source Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. <em>Organisms Diversity and Evolution.</em> 3: 207-213., available online at https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/sombase-southern-ocean-mollusc-database-a-tool-for-biogeographic/ [details] 

additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details] 
 
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Limatula ovalis) 
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
To Malacopics (Limatula ovalis (Thiele,1912) Antarctica, King Haakon VII Sea, at 112-113 m depth) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Limatula ovalis (Thiele, 1912) shell, apical view) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Limatula ovalis (Thiele, 1912) shell, left valve, outer view) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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