Pectinoida

Pectinoida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Pteriomorphia
Order:	Pectinoida
Families
See text.

Pectinoida is a suborder of large and medium-sized saltwater clams marine bivalve mollusks, commonly known as scallops and their allies.^[1]

2010 Taxonomy of the suborder Pectinoida

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 suborder Pectinoida.^[2]

Superfamily: Anomoiidea
- Family: Anomiidae
Superfamily: Plicatuloidea
- Family: Plicatulidae
Superfamily: Dimyoidea
- Family: Dimyidae
Superfamily: Pectinoidea
- Family: Entoliidae
- Family: Pectinidae
- Family: Propeamussiidae
- Family: Spondylidae

References

^ Pectinoida Gray, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=387324 on 9 July 2010.
^ 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