Limatula sulcata (Brown, 1837)

Allen, J. A., 2010, The Recent species of the genera Limatula and Limea (Bivalvia, Limacea) present in the Atlantic, with particular reference to those in deep water, Journal of Natural History 38 (20), pp. 2591-2653 : 2651

Limatula sulcata (Brown, 1837)

Type locality: not designated. Type: probably was housed in the Manchester Natural History Society Museum ,

but is not present in the type cabinet of its successor University of Manchester

Museum. (The specimen photographed in Tebble (1966) is one of a lot of two taken off Mull

and is part of the J. E. Cooper collection BMNH Accession No. 2150.)? Lima nivea Brocchi , 181: 517 in part. Lima sulcata Leach mss. in Brown, 1827 (non Lamarck, 1819), pl. XXXI, figures 4 ,

5 ; Brown, 1844: 74, pl. XXIII, figures 4 , 5 ; Wood, 1851; Möller, 1842: 92;

Hartley, 1984: 190; van Aartsen et al., 1984: 60; Seaward, 1990: 71. Lima (Limatula) sulcata Tebble, 1966: 66–67 , pl. 11, figure f.? Lima elliptica Chaster, 1897: 124 . Limatula subauriculata sulcata Nordsieck, 1969: 57 , pl. IX, figure 36.11 ; Barsotti,

1975: 4, figured. Limatula sulcata Fleming, 1978: 31 ; Lucas, 1980: 5, figured; Hayward and Ryland,

1990: 750, figure 13.6 ; Smith and Heppell, 1991: 61.

( Limatula barbadensis , named by Stuardo (1968) as a new species from SUI exp. sta. 54 off Cable sta. Barbados, 60 m ( USNM No. 503549a) in his PhD thesis (p. 218, not figured), but never published.)

( Limatula cochinensis , named by Stuardo (1968) as a new species from Ensenada de Cochinos , Cuba, 182–273 m ( USNM No. 458404) in his PhD thesis (p. 215, pl. 10, figure 17 ), but never published.)

( Limatula stegeri , named by Stuardo (1968) as a new species from SW of Egmont Key, Florida, 364–419 m ( MCZ No. 261455) in his PhD thesis (p. 230, pl. 16, figure 85), but never published.)

Figures

FIG. 4. Limatula subovata. Sta. 87, semi-diagrammatic drawing of a partially opened shell to show the arrangement of the tentacles on the mantle margin. Scale bar: 1 mm.

FIG. 5. Limatula subovata. Sta. 87, posterior view of the anatomy of a juvenile specimen with the shell removed. Scale bar: 1 mm.

FIG. 36. Limea lirata. Sta. 119, (a) lateral view of the shell from the right side; (b) internal view of the hinge. Scale bars: 1 mm.

FIG. 13. Limatula margaretae. Sta. BGIV DS57, lateral view of a shell from the right side. Scale bar: 1 mm.

FIG. 17. Limatula smithi. Sta. 191, lateral view of shell from right side. Scale bar: 1 mm.