Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia

Protobranchia Pelseneer, 1889

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Manzanellida Ponder & Lindberg, 2020
Nuculanida J. G. Carter, D. C. Campbell & M. R. Campbell, 2000
Nuculida Dall, 1889
Solemyida Dall, 1889

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: veerkieuwige tweekleppigen sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

Japanese: 原鰓亜綱

Literature

original description	Pelseneer, P. (1889). Sur la classification phylogenetique de pelecypods. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique. 20(sér. 3, no. 2):(1–4):27–52.
additional source	Sato, K., Kano, Y., Setiamarga, D. H. E., Watanabe, H. K. & Sasaki, T. (2020). Molecular phylogeny of protobranch bivalves and systematic implications of their shell microstructure. Zoologica Scripta. 49: 458-472.
additional source	Lemer, S.; Bieler, R.; Giribet, G. (2019). Resolving the relationships of clams and cockles: dense transcriptome sampling drastically improves the bivalve tree of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1896): 20182684.
additional source	Yonge, C. M. (1939). The Protobranchiate Mollusca; A Functional Interpretation of Their Structure and Evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 230(566): 79-148.
additional source	Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M.; Collins, T. M.; Glover, E. A.; González, V. L.; Graf, D. L.; Harper, E. M.; Healy, J.; Kawauchi, G. Y.; Sharma, P. P.; Staubach, S.; Strong, E. E.; Taylor, J. D.; Tëmkin, I.; Zardus, J. D.; Clark, S.; Guzmán, A.; McIntyre, E.; Sharp, P.; Giribet, G. (2014). Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life – an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics. 28(1): 32-115.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Protobranchia. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106