Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca

Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Conchifera*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Lamellibranchiata*	Blainville, 1824	synonym
*Pelecypoda*	Goldfuss, 1820	synonym

Children

Heterodonta Neumayr, 1884
Palaeoheterodonta Newell, 1965
Protobranchia Pelseneer, 1889
Pteriomorphia Beurlen, 1944

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: tweekleppigen sources: 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: bivalves; bivalves and clams sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: bivalves sources: Charles Hussey

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

Ukrainian: Двостулкові; Двостулкові молюски

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
additional source	Taylor J. D., Kennedy W. J. & Hall A. (1973). The Shell Structure and Mineralogy of the Bivalvia. II. Lucinacea-Clavagellacea. Conclusions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, London 22 (9): 253-294, pl. 15
additional source	Cox L.R. et al., 1969. Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. In R.C. Moore (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence. 2 vol., 1224 p.
additional source	Bieler R. & Mikkelsen P. 2006. Bivalvia – a look at the Branches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 148, 223–235.

Genbank

External Links

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Bivalvia. 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:105