Heterodonta
Heterodonta is a subclass of bivalve molluscs, including the clams and cockles.[1] They are distinguished by having the two halves of the shell be equally sized, and having a few cardinal teeth separated from a number of long lateral teeth. Their shells lack a nacreous layer, and the gills are lamellibranch in form. Most species have a siphon.[2]
The subclass contains four extinct orders, five orders of living bivalves and a group of yet unassigned Euheterodonta:
- Order †Cycloconchidae
- Order †Hippuritoida (rudists)
- Order †Lyrodesmatidae
- Order †Redoniidae
2010 Taxonomy of the Heterodonta
In 2010 a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published in by Bieler, Carter & Coan revising the classification of the Bivalvia, including the subclass Heterodonta.[3]
Subclass: Heterodonta
Infraclass: Archiheterodonta[4][5]
Order: Carditoida[6]
- Superfamily: Carditoidea
- Superfamily: Crassitelloidea
Infraclass: Euheterodonta[7]
Unassigned Euheterodonta[8]
- Superfamily: Gastrochaenoidea
- Superfamily: Hiatelloidea
- Superfamily: Solenoidea
- Superfamily: Clavagelloidea
- Superfamily: Cuspidarioidea
- Superfamily: Myochamoidea
- Superfamily: Pandoroidea
- Superfamily: Pholadomyoidea
- Superfamily: Poromyoidea
- Superfamily: Thracioidea
- Superfamily: Verticordioidea
- Family: Lyonsiellidae
- Family: Verticordidae
- Family: Euciroidae
- Suborder: Myina
- Superfamily: Myoidea
- Superfamily: Pholadoidea
Order: Lucinoida[11]
- Superfamily: Lucinoidea
- Superfamily: Thyasiroidea
- Superfamily: Arcticoidea
- Superfamily: Corbiculoidea
- Superfamily: Cyamioidea
- Superfamily: Glossoidea
- Superfamily: Tridacnoidea
- Superfamily: Cardioidea
- Superfamily: Chamoidea
- Superfamily: Galeommatoidea
- Superfamily: Mactroidea
- Superfamily: Tellinoidea
- Superfamily: Ungulinoidea
- Superfamily: Cyrenoididae
- Superfamily: Veneroidea
References
- ^ Heterodonta Neumayr, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216 on 3 February 2009.
- ^ Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 340. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.
- ^ Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. (2010) Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184
- ^ Archiheterodonta Giribet in Taylor, Williams, Glover & Dyal, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382255 on 3 February 2009.
- ^ Giribet G. 2008. Bivalvia. Pp. 105-141, in: Ponder W.F. & Lindberg D.L. (eds), Molluscan Phylogeny. Berkeley: University of California Press, xi+469 pp.
- ^ Carditoida Dall, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382256 on 3 August 2010.
- ^ Euheterodonta Giribet in Taylor, Williams, Glover & Dyal, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382296 on 3 February 2009.
- ^ Unassigned Euheterodonta. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382297 on 12 July 2009.
- ^ Anomalodesmata Dall, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254 on 9 July 2010.
- ^ Myoida Stoliczka, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=245 on 9 July 2010.
- ^ Lucinoida Gray, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=489106 on 10 July 2010.
- ^ Veneroida Gray, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217 on 9 July 2010.