Pterioida

Pterioida

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

Pterioida is a suborder of large and medium-sized saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks. It includes five families, among them the Pteriidae (pearl oysters and winged oysters).^[1]

2010 Taxonomy of the suborder Pterioida

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 Pterioida.^[2]

Superfamily Pinnoidea
- Family Pinnidae
Superfamily †Posidonioidea Neumayr, 1891
- Family †Posidoniidae Neumayr, 1891 (Devonian to Cretaceous)
- Family †Aulacomyellidae Ichikawa, 1958
- Family †Daonellidae Neumayr, 1891
- Family †Halobiidae Kittl, 1912 (Devonian to Triassic)
Superfamily Pterioidea
- Family †Bakevelliidae (Triassic to Eocene)
- Family †Cassianellidae (Middle to Late Triassic)
- Family †Kochiidae
- Family Malleidae
- Family †Pergamidiidae (Triassic to Cretaceous)
- Family †Plicatostylidae (Jurassic)
- Family Pteriidae
- Family Pulvinitidae
- Family †Ramonalinidae (early Middle Triassic)
- Family †Vlastidae (Ordivician to Silurian)
Superfamily †Rhombopterioidea Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960
- Family †Rhombopteriidae Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960 (Silurian to Devonian)
- Family †Umburridae P. A. Johnston, 1991 (Silurian)

References

^ Pterioida Newell, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212 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