WoRMS taxon details
Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 140233
AphiaID: 140233
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Limoida (Order) > Limoidea (Superfamily) > Limidae (Family) > Lima (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lima Bruguière, 1797 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Lima alba Cuvier, 1797 Lima squamosa Lamarck, 1801 Lima vulgaris Scacchi, 1836 Ostrea lima Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Huber M. (2010) 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [details] additional source: Ardovini, R.; Cossignani, T. (2004). West African seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Is.) = Conchiglie dell'Africa Occidentale (incluse Azzorre, Madeira e Canarie). English-Italian edition. L'Informatore Piceno: Ancona, Italy. ISBN 88-86070-11-X. 319 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Lima lima vulgaris (Link, 1807) accepted as Lima vulgaris (Link, 1807) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belize [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Chagos [details] Colombia [details] Curaçao [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Jamaica [details] Kisite Marine National Park [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Madagascar [details] Mombasa [details] Morocco [details] Mozambique [details] Puerto Rico [details] Red Sea [details] San Andres [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140233 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140233 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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