Limea Bronn, 1831

Oliveira, Cléo Dilnei De Castro & Absalão, Ricardo Silva, 2008, The genera Limatula and Limea (Mollusca, Pelecypoda, Limidae) from deep waters off Brazil, Zootaxa 1940, pp. 48-58 : 55

publication ID

1175­5334

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED2102-8414-FF8A-FF06-FAB3FD13D639

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scientific name

Limea Bronn, 1831
status

 

Limea Bronn, 1831

Type species: Ostrea strigilata Brocchi, 1814

Description: Shell small, white, usually fragile, ovate or suborbicular, slightly inflated, concentric striae or even lamellae, axial ornamentation present, beaks prominent, auricles small, margins crenate, hinge with series of short teeth on either side of resilifer.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Limoida

Family

Limidae

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