Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Limida > Superfamily Limoidea > Family Limidae

Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lima (Limatula)*	S. V. Wood, 1839	synonym

Children

Limatula bisecta J. A. Allen, 2004
Limatula celtica J. A. Allen, 2004
Limatula confusa (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Limatula demiradiata J. A. Allen, 2004
Limatula gibba (Jeffreys, 1876)
Limatula gwyni (Sykes, 1903)
Limatula hyperborea A. S. Jensen, 1905
Limatula ingolfiana A. S. Jensen, 1912
Limatula jeffreysi (P. Fischer, 1882)
Limatula laminifera (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Limatula margaretae J. A. Allen, 2004
Limatula similis (A. S. Jensen, 1912)
Limatula smithi J. A. Allen, 2004
Limatula subauriculata (Montagu, 1808)
Limatula subovata (Monterosato, 1875)
Limatula thalassae J. A. Allen, 2004

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ユキバネガイ属

Literature

basis of record	Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412
additional source	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.
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138127