Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Arcoida > Superfamily Limopsoidea > Family Limopsidae

Limopsis Sassi, 1827

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Limopsis angusta Jeffreys, 1879
Limopsis anomala (Eichwald, 1830)
Limopsis aurita (Brocchi, 1814)
Limopsis cristata Jeffreys, 1876
Limopsis friedbergi Glibert & van de Poel, 1965
Limopsis marionensis E. A. Smith, 1885
Limopsis minuta (Philippi, 1836)
Limopsis multistriata (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Limopsis tenella Jeffreys, 1876
Limopsis tenuis Seguenza, 1876

Literature

additional source	Oliver G. & Allen J. A. (1980). The functional and adaptative morphology of deep-sea species of the Family Limopsidae (Bivalvia: Arcoida) from the Atlantic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 291 (1045): 45-125
additional source	Malchus N. & Warén A. 2005. Shell and hinge morphology of juvenile Limopsis (Bivalvia: Arcoida) - implications for limopsid evolution. Marine Biology Research 1(5): 350-364
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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Limopsis Sassi, 1827. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138132