Divarilima is a genus of marine bivalve 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:
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Divarilima abscisa
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Divarilima albicoma
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† Divarilima aucklandensis
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Divarilima elegans
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Divarilima handini
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Divarilima iwaotakii
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Divarilima sydneyensis
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