Lucinoida

Lucinoida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Lucinoida
Gray, 1854[1]
Superfamilies and Families

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Lucinoida is a taxonomic order of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs.

Taxonomy

In 2010, a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published in by Bieler, Carter & Coan, revising the classification of the Bivalvia.[2] Lucinoida has thus become the order of its own.[1] It includes the following two superfamilies:

References

  1. 1 2 Lucinoida Gray, 1854.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2010.
  2. 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
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