Limea pygmaea (R. A. Philippi, 1845 )

Zettler, Michael L. & Bick, Andreas, 2025, Molluscs from a shallow bay of King George Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands): An annotated checklist with new distributional records, Zootaxa 5631 (3), pp. 401-450 : 414

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15375077
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scientific name	Limea pygmaea (R. A. Philippi, 1845 )
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12. Limea pygmaea (R. A. Philippi, 1845) View in CoL [ Figs 7A–C View FIGURE 7 ]

Lima pygmaea R. A. Philippi, 1845: 56 View in CoL

Material examined. • 9 spms, Stn. 5; • 1 spm, Stn. 9.

Type locality. Strait of Magellan .

Bathymetric distribution. 0–598 m.

Substrate. Hard bottom, probably attached to stones or macrophytes.

Geographical distribution. ANTARCTICA: Antarctic Peninsula. SUBANTARCTICA: Kerguelen Islands, Macquarie Islands. SCOTIA ARC: South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands. SOUTH AMERICA: Straits of Magellan, Malvinas/Falkland Islands.

Remarks. We found this species at two stations from the intertidal to 15 m. The species is already known from the Maxwell and Admiralty Bays.

References. Arnaud et al. (1986), Dell (1990), Absher & Feijó (1998), Narchi et al. (2002), Engl (2012), Huber (2010), Aldea et al. (2020).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Bivalvia
Order	Limida
Family	Limidae
Genus	Limea