Lima (Radula) mungoensis von Koenen 1897 (file clam)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Alternative combination: Lima mungoensis

Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48

Belongs to Lima (Radula) according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957

See also von Koenen 1897

Sister taxa: Glaucion, Lima (Lima), Lima (Lima) pelagica, Lima (Mantellum), Lima (Regalilima), Lima (Tirolidia), Lima acuta, Lima aequilatera, Lima alpissordidae, Lima alternans, Lima amaxensis, Lima appressa, Lima areolaris, Lima austriaca, Lima azzarolae, Lima balatonica, Lima bassii, Lima bela, Lima blackburnei, Lima bulloides, Lima canalifera, Lima cancellata, Lima caribaea, Lima cholla, Lima cinnabarensis, Lima clathrata, Lima colorata, Lima connectens, Lima coodei, Lima costata, Lima costulata, Lima cottaldina, Lima delaunayi, Lima densepunctata, Lima dilleri, Lima discus, Lima distincta, Lima eocenica, Lima ericensis, Lima espinal, Lima exilis, Lima flexicostata, Lima fulgurans, Lima geronimoensis, Lima glacialis, Lima goliath, Lima goyoni, Lima halensis, Lima harrisiana, Lima incurvostriata, Lima iraonensis, Lima kennedyi, Lima kimballi, Lima klipsteini, Lima lima, Lima lineata, Lima lineatopunctatus, Lima linguliformis, Lima loczyi, Lima martini, Lima maxima, Lima microtis, Lima moeschi, Lima multilineata, Lima muralensis, Lima nana, Lima oliva, Lima packardi, Lima pangymna, Lima parallela, Lima paulula, Lima paupercula, Lima plicatula, Lima polyactina, Lima reniformis, Lima retifera, Lima robertsae, Lima sayrei, Lima schardti, Lima shastensis, Lima strigilis, Lima subauriculata, Lima subdensepunctata, Lima subdistincta, Lima subdupla, Lima subpunctata, Lima subretifera, Lima succincta, Lima taylorensis, Lima telleri, Lima tenuilineata, Lima tetrica, Lima transversa, Lima vulgaris, Lima williamsoni, Lima xiangnanensis, Lima zealandica, Lima zitteli, Limigenus, Lima (Radula) baliana, Lima (Radula) valmariannae, Lima (Radula) skuphi, Lima (Radula) baungensis, Radula bernayi, Lima (Radula) subcumaunica

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

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