Lima plicatula Wood 1839 (file clam)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Belongs to Lima according to S. V. Wood 1850

Sister taxa: Glaucion, Lima (Lima), Lima (Lima) pelagica, Lima (Mantellum), Lima (Regalilima), Lima (Tirolidia), Lima acuta, Lima aequilatera, Lima alpissordidae, Lima alternans, Lima amaxensis, Lima appressa, Lima areolaris, Lima austriaca, Lima azzarolae, Lima balatonica, Lima bassii, Lima bela, Lima bella, Lima blackburnei, Lima bulloides, Lima canalifera, Lima cancellata, Lima caribaea, Lima cholla, Lima cinnabarensis, Lima clathrata, Lima colorata, Lima connectens, Lima coodei, Lima costata, Lima costulata, Lima cottaldina, Lima delaunayi, Lima densepunctata, Lima dilleri, Lima discus, Lima distincta, Lima eocenica, Lima ericensis, Lima espinal, Lima exilis, Lima flexicostata, Lima fulgurans, Lima geronimoensis, Lima glacialis, Lima goliath, Lima goyoni, Lima halensis, Lima harrisiana, Lima incurvostriata, Lima iraonensis, Lima kennedyi, Lima kimballi, Lima klipsteini, Lima lima, Lima lineata, Lima lineatopunctatus, Lima linguliformis, Lima loczyi, Lima martini, Lima maxima, Lima microtis, Lima moeschi, Lima multilineata, Lima muralensis, Lima nana, Lima oliva, Lima packardi, Lima pangymna, Lima parallela, Lima patagonica, Lima paulula, Lima paupercula, Lima polyactina, Lima reniformis, Lima retifera, Lima robertsae, Lima sayrei, Lima schardti, Lima shastensis, Lima strigilis, Lima subauriculata, Lima subdensepunctata, Lima subdistincta, Lima subdupla, Lima subpunctata, Lima subretifera, Lima succincta, Lima taylorensis, Lima telleri, Lima tenuilineata, Lima tetrica, Lima transversa, Lima vulgaris, Lima wacoensis, Lima williamsoni, Lima xiangnanensis, Lima zealandica, Lima zitteli, Limigenus, Lima (Radula) skuphi, Lima (Radula) subcumaunica, Radula bernayi, Lima (Radula) mungoensis, Lima (Radula) valmariannae, Lima (Radula) baliana, Lima (Radula) baungensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sutton, Suffolk [Coralline Crag] (Pliocene of the United Kingdom)

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