Species Lima (Lima) tropicalis (Iredale, 1939)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austrolima tropicalis Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [385, pl. 6, figs. 6, 6a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60372 Dry, Great Barrier Reef, 0.5 miles south-east of Lizard island, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Lima (Lima) tropicalis (Iredale, 1939). —
  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, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [On the CD]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

General References

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, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [On the CD]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [36]

Stuardo, J. 1968. On the phylogeny, taxonomy and distribution of the Limidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). PhD thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. 327 pp.

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