Subgenus Lima (Lima) Bruguière, 1797

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lima Bruguière, J.G. 1797. Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique, Vers Testacees. Paris : Panckouke/Agasse pls 190-286. [pl. 206].

  Type species:

   Lima alba Cuvier, 1797 by monotypy (=Ostrea lima Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent monotypy, see Cuvier, 1797, Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux: 421).
• Mantellum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [160] [objective synonym; junior objective synonym of Lima].

  Type species:

   Ostrea lima Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Winckworth, R. 1930. Notes on Nomenclature. 6. Lima and allied genera. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 19(3): 115-116 [116].
• Limaria Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [147] [junior homonym; of Limaria Link, 1807; substitute name or unjustified emendation of Lima Bruguière, 1797].
• Glaucion Oken, L. 1815. Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Th. III, Zoologie. Abth. 1, Fleischlose. Leipzig pp. 1-842. [vii] [invalid name; introduced as a replacement name for Glaucus Poli, 1795, preoccupied by Glaucus Forster, 1777. Work invalid ICZN Official Index Oppinion 417].
• Radula Mörch, O.A.L. 1853. Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra et Gadea, Comes de Yoldi, regis Daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis Danebrogici in prima classe et ordinis tertii eques. Fasciculus Secundus. Acephala, Annulata Cirripeda, Echinodermata. Hafniae : Ludovici Kleini Vol. 2 74 pp. + 2 unnumbered pages. [Date published April] [56] [junior homonym; not Radula Gray, 1847. Attributed by Mörch to Klein [not available]. Invalid: junior homonym of Radula Gray, 1842 [Gastropoda]].

  Type species:

   Lima radula "Chemnitz" by Linnaean tautonymy.
• Austrolima Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [165].

  Type species:

   Lima nimbifer Iredale, 1924 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes