Limatula, the file shells or file clams, is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Limidae.

Species

• Limatula attenuata Dall, 1916 - attenuate fileclam

• Limatula aupouria Powell, 1937

• Limatula confusa (E. A. Smith, 1885) - confusing fileclam

• Limatula gwyni (Sykes, 1903)

• Limatula hendersoni Olsson and McGinty, 1958 - henderson fileclam, minute fileclam

• Limatula hodgsoni (E. A. Smith, 1907)

• Limatula hyalina A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - ahyaline fileclam, hyaline fileclam

• Limatula hyperborea A. S. Jensen, 1909 - Arctic fileclam, boreal fileclam

• Limatula japonica A. Adams, 1864 - Japan fileclam

• Limatula maoria Finlay, 1927

• Limatula regularis A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - aregular fileclam, regular fileclam

• Limatula saturna Bernard, 1978 - Saturna fileclam, saturnine fileclam

• Limatula setifera Dall, 1886 - bristly fileclam

• Limatula similaris (Dall, 1908) - furrowless fileclam

• Limatula subauriculata (Montagu, 1808) - small-ear fileclam

• Limatula subovata (Jeffreys, 1876)

• Limatula sulcata (Brown, 1827)

• Limatula suteri Dall, 1908

• Limatula vancouverensis Bernard, 1978 - Vancouver fileclam

• Species brought into synonymy:

• Limatula pygmaea (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Limea pygmaea (Philippi, 1845)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979