Subgenus Limaria (Limaria) Link, 1807

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limaria Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [157].

  Type species:

   Limaria inflata Link, 1807 (= Ostrea tuberculata Olivi, 1792) 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].
• Submantellum Olsson, A.A. & Harbison, A. 1953. Pliocene Mollusca of South Florida. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 1-457, 65 pls [60].

  Type species:

   Lima orbigny Lamy, 1833 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Kilburn, R.N. 1998. The Limidae of South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia): genera Limaria, Limatula, Divarilima, Ctenoides and Fukama. Annals of the Natal Museum 39: 203-247

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 17]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N389]

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