Divarilima


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

Description

In the original description, Powell described the genus as below:
Members of the genus are small, trigonally ovate, strongly inequilateral, and have sharp. backward-pointing umbones. The anterodorsal outline almost straight, extended, coinciding with
well-marked a umbonal ridge which borders a concave lunule.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by A. W. B. Powell in 1958, who named Lima sydneyensis as the type species of the genus. The genus is in the family Limidae.

Distribution

Divarilima is found in oceans across the globe, including waters near Japan, the western Atlantic, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Species

Species within the genus Divarilima include: