Summary: | FIGURE 4. External and internal views of the valves of four species of Acesta from the South and West Pacific. (A) A. goliath; western North Pacific Ocean, AMNH 50989, right valve. (B) A. rathbuni; western South Pacific Ocean, AMNH 250590, right valve. (C) A. saginata; central South Pacific Ocean, USNM 890900, mirror image of left valve. (D) A. smithi; western North Pacific Ocean, AMNH 277142, right valve. Scales = 5 cm. Published as part of Gagnon, Jean-Marc, Kenchington, Ellen, Port, Antony, Anstey, Lynne J. & Murillo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Morphological and genetic variation in North Atlantic giant file clams, Acesta spp. (Bivalvia: Limidae), with description of a new cryptic species in the northwest Atlantic, pp. 151-180 in Zootaxa 4007 (2) on page 155, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/235013
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