Pteriida

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Pteriida
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A live individual of Pinna nobilis in the Pinnidae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Pteriomorphia
Order: Pteriida
Newell, 1965
Families

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Synonyms

Pterioida

The Pteriida are an order of large and medium-sized marine bivalve mollusks. It includes five families, among them the Pteriidae (pearl oysters and winged oysters). [1]

2010 taxonomy

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Selection of members of the extinct Plicatostylidae

In 2010, a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published by Bieler, Carter & Coan, revising the classification of the Bivalvia, including the suborder Pteriida. [2]

References

  1. Pterioida Newell, 1965 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 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
  3. Asato, Kaito; Kase, Tomoki; Ono, Teruo; Sashida, Katsuo; Agematsu, Sachiko (2017-10-01). "Morphology, Systematics and Paleoecology of Shikamaia, Aberrant Permian Bivalves (Alatoconchidae: Ambonychioidea) from Japan". Paleontological Research. 21: 358–379. doi:10.2517/2017PR002.