Shell Family of Taiwan
Limidae 狐蛤科contain35 species in Taiwan,show1 - 15
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Limidae 狐蛤科Shell small to large,commonly white, equivalve, obscurely auriculate, elongate-oval or subtriangular, more or less opisthocline. Byssate species characterized by gaped anterior margin, though there are many non-byssate and free-living species. Ligament groove on the middle of low-triangular cardinal area. Surface ornamented with radial ribs. Mostly edentulous. Radial sculpture commonly developed. Coloration, if not whity, almost monotonous. Outer layer composed of foliated calcite, while inner layer totally consists of crossed-lamellar aragonite. Monomyarian. Pseudolamellibranchitae.
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 Acesta marissinica 大黃狐蛤  Yamashita et Habe, 1969  
 Acesta rathbuni 黃滑狐蛤  (Bartsch, 1913)  
 Ctenoides ales   (Finley, 1927)  
 Ctenoides annulata   (Lamarck, 1819)  
 Ctenoides annulatus   (Lamarck, 1819)  
 Ctenoides concentrica   (Sowerby, 1888)  
 Ctenoides lischkei   (Lamy, 1930)  
 Isolima limopsis   (Nomura et Zinbo)  
 Lima fraglis   Chemnitz  
 Lima fujitai   Oyama, 1943  
 Lima lima   (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Lima sowerbyi   Deshayes  
 Lima tomlini   Prashad, 1932  
 Lima vulgaris 大白狐蛤  (Link, 1807)  
 Lima vulgata   Yokoyama, 1922