Species under Limatula
n= 42
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Limatula acherontis
Fleming, 1978
Southwest Pacific
Limatula attenuata
Dall, 1916
Attenuate fileclam Eastern Pacific and Northeast Atlantic
Limatula aupouria
Powell, 1937
Southwest Pacific
Limatula bullata
(Born, 1780)
Western Pacific
Limatula confusa
(Smith, 1885)
Confusing fileclam Atlantic Ocean 0.15
Limatula deceptionensis
Preston, 1916
Antarctica
Limatula delli
Fleming, 1978
Southwest Pacific
Limatula domaneschii
Oliveira & Absalao, 2008
Western Atlantic 0.12
Limatula fragilis
(Gmelin, 1791)
Eastern Indian Ocean
Limatula gwyni
(Sykes, 1903)
Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea
Limatula hendersoni
Olsson & McGinty, 1958
Minute fileclam Atlantic Ocean 0.29
Limatula hodgsoni
Smith, 1907
Southern Pacific and the Antarctic 2.3
Limatula hyalina
Verrill & Bush, 1898
Hyaline fileclam Northeast Atlantic
Limatula hyperborea
Jensen, 1909
Arctic fileclam Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic 1.4
Limatula insularis
Oliver, 1915
Southwest Pacific
Limatula japonica
Adams, 1864
Japan fileclam Northeast Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
Limatula kawamurai
(Masahito & Habe, 1972)
Northwest Pacific
Limatula laminifera
(Smith, 1885)
Western Central Atlantic 0.24
Limatula louiseae
Clarke, 1974
Western Atlantic 0.23
Limatula maoria
Finlay, 1927
Southwest Pacific
Limatula margaretae
Allen, 2004
Atlantic Ocean
Limatula nodulosa
Verrill & Bush, 1898
Western Atlantic
Limatula oliveri
Powell, 1958
Southwest Pacific
Limatula ovalis
Thiele, 1912
Antarctic Atlantic
Limatula ponderi
Fleming, 1978
Eastern Indian Ocean
Limatula powelli
Fleming, 1978
Indo-West Pacific
Limatula raoulica
Fleming, 1978
Southwest Pacific
Limatula regularis
Verrill & Bush, 1898
Regular fileclam Atlantic Ocean
Limatula saturna
Bernard, 1978
Saturna fileclam Eastern Pacific and Northeast Atlantic
Limatula setifera
Dall, 1886
Bristly fileclam Atlantic Ocean 0.9
Limatula sibogai
(Prashad, 1932)
Western Pacific
Limatula similaris
(Dall, 1908)
Furrowless fileclam Eastern Pacific and Northeast Atlantic
Limatula simillima
(Thiele, 1912)
Antarctic
Limatula spinulosa
Fleming, 1978
Southwest Pacific
Limatula subauriculata
(Montagu, 1808)
Small-ear fileclam Atlantic Ocean, North America, Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Arctic
Limatula subovata
(Jeffreys, 1876)
Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea
Limatula sulcata
(Brown, 1827)
Northeast Atlantic
Limatula suteri
(Dall, 1908)
Southwest Pacific
Limatula textilis
Wang, 1990
Northwest Pacific
Limatula tosana
Oyama, 1943
Western Central Pacific
Limatula vancouverensis
Bernard, 1978
Northeast Atlantic
Limatula vigilis
Fleming, 1978
Southwest Pacific
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