Acestarica, a new genus for a translucent deep-water species (Bivalvia, Limidae)

In 2015, a very thin-shelled, translucent bivalve in the fam­ily Limidae Rafinesque, 1815 was described as Acesta vitrina Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015 and coming from deep water from the Philippines. A new genus is proposed to accommodate this species based on its unique shellchar­acters: an oblique, rounded shape, very translucent, thin-walled shell of small to moderate size. Comments are made on the subgenera of Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858.