Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia

Mollusca

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bivalvia
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758
Caudofoveata C. R. Boettger, 1956
Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1795
Gastropoda
Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795
Monoplacophora Odhner, 1940
Polyplacophora Gray, 1821
Scaphopoda Bronn, 1862
Solenogastres Gegenbaur, 1878

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: mollusken; weekdieren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

English: molluscs sources: Hayward, P.J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.

English-United States: molluscs sources: Charles Hussey

French: mollusques

Spanish, Castillian: moluscos

Swedish: blötdjur sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: М'якуни

Literature

basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	Ponder W.F. & Lindberg D.R. (eds.) 2008. Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca. University of California Press, Berkeley, 488 pp.

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Mollusca. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:51

Ruud A. Bank. Mollusca. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=11368