Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Full reference: K. Futterer. 1897. Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Jura in Ost-Afrika, IV. Der Jura von Schoa (Süd-Abessinien) [Jurassic of East Africa, IV. Jurassic of Schoa (southern Abyssinia)]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 49:568-627

Belongs to Lima according to K. Futterer 1897

Sister taxa: Lima (Lima), Lima (Lima) pelagica, Lima (Mantellum), Lima aequilatera, Lima bassii, Lima blackburnei, Lima bulloides, Lima cholla, Lima clathrata, Lima colorata, Lima connectens, Lima coodei, Lima costulata, Lima densepunctata, Lima espinal, Lima exilis, Lima geronimoensis, Lima halensis, Lima iraonensis, Lima kimballi, Lima klipsteini, Lima lima, Lima linguliformis, Lima martini, Lima moeschi, Lima muralensis, Lima nana, Lima obliqua, Lima plicatula, Lima polyactina, Lima retifera, Lima sayrei, Lima schardti, Lima spathulata, Lima subauriculata, Lima subretifera, Lima tenuilineata, Lima vulgaris, Lima williamsoni, Lima xiangnanensis, Lima zealandica, Radula bernayi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Jima River, which is in a Kimmeridgian shallow subtidal limestone in Ethiopia

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder