Subgenus Limatula (Limatula) Wood, 1839

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• Limatula Wood, S.V. 1839. Descriptions of the species of the genus Lima, from the coralline Crag, in the cabinet of Searles Valentine Wood. Magazine of Natural History 3(n.s.): 233-236, pl. 3 [235].

  Type species:

   Pecten subauriculatus Montagu, 1808 by subsequent designation (subsequent designation, Gray, 1847, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 200).

  Secondary source:

   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] (contains a few additional names for Limatula all of which are either invalid because of ICZN supression or invalid for other reasons).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Buonaiuto, M.F. 1977. Revision of the Australian Tertiary species ascribed to Limatula Wood (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 101(1): 21-33

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [114]

Dell, R.K. 1956. The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand. Dominion Museum Bulletin 18: 1-235, pls 1-25 [27]

Fleming, C.A. 1978. The bivalve mollusc genus Limatula: a list of described species and a review of living and fossil species in the southwest Pacific. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 8(1): 17-91 [37]

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

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [308]

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