''Limatula'', the file shells or file clams, is a genus of marine

bivalve Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the family Limidae.

Species

* '' Limatula attenuata'' Dall, 1916 - attenuate fileclam * '' Limatula aupouria'' Powell, 1937 * '' Limatula confusa'' ( E. A. Smith, 1885) - confusing fileclam * '' Limatula gwyni'' (Sykes, 1903) * '' Limatula hendersoni'' Olsson and McGinty, 1958 - henderson fileclam, minute fileclam * '' Limatula hodgsoni'' (E. A. Smith, 1907) * '' Limatula hyalina'' A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - ahyaline fileclam, hyaline fileclam * '' Limatula hyperborea'' A. S. Jensen, 1909 - Arctic fileclam, boreal fileclam * '' Limatula japonica'' A. Adams, 1864 - Japan fileclam * '' Limatula maoria'' Finlay, 1927 * '' Limatula regularis'' A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - aregular fileclam, regular fileclam * '' Limatula saturna'' Bernard, 1978 - Saturna fileclam, saturnine fileclam * '' Limatula setifera'' Dall, 1886 - bristly fileclam * '' Limatula similaris'' ( Dall, 1908) - furrowless fileclam * '' Limatula subauriculata'' (Montagu, 1808) - small-ear fileclam * '' Limatula subovata'' (Jeffreys, 1876) * '' Limatula sulcata'' (Brown, 1827) * '' Limatula suteri'' Dall, 1908 * '' Limatula vancouverensis'' Bernard, 1978 - Vancouver fileclam ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Limatula pygmaea'' ( Philippi, 1845): synonym of '' Limea pygmaea'' (Philippi, 1845)

References

* * Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{Taxonbar, from=Q530148 Limidae Bivalve genera