WoRMS taxon details
Bivalvia
AphiaID: 105
AphiaID: 105
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) |
| Authority | Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parent | Mollusca | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Conchifera (synonym) Lamellibranchiata (synonym) Pelecypoda (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] 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 [details] additional source: Bieler R. & Mikkelsen P. 2006. Bivalvia – a look at the Branches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 148, 223–235. [details] 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. [details] from synonym: Goldfuss, G.A.. 1820. Handbuch der Zoologie. In: Schubert, G.H. (ed.). Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen. Erste Abteilung 1-696, pls. 1-2; Zweite Abteilung: i-xxiv, 1-510, pls. 3-4., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=x8ATAAAAYAAJ page(s): 599 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Blainville, H. de (1816). Prodrome d'une nouvelle distribution systématique du règne animal. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris v. 8, pp 105-112 [sic for 113-120] +121-124. Also issued in Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle, 83: 244-267., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153426 page(s): 122 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Blainville H.M.D. de (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca, pp. 1-392, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230 page(s): 306 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Blainville H.M.D. de 1822. De l'organisation des animaux, ou Principes d'anatomie comparée. Tome premier, contenant la morphologie et l'aisthesiologie. Paris, Levrault, lix + 574 p. , available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=pVPd2ZJ0_HMC page(s): 202 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lamarck ([J.-B. M.] de) (1815-1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Paris [vol. 5: Paris, Deterville/Verdière] [vol. 6 published by the Author] : 7 vol. [I molluschi sono compresi nei vol. 5-7. Vol. 5 (Les Conchiferes): 612 pp. [25 luglio 1818]. Vol. 6 (1) (Suite): 343 pp. [1819]. Vol. 6 (2) (Suite): 232 pp. [1822]. Vol. 7: (Suite): 711 pp. [1822]], available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12712 page(s): vol. 5 p. 411 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa | Subclass Heterodonta Subclass Palaeoheterodonta Subclass Protobranchia Subclass Pteriomorphia Subclass Anomalodesmacea accepted as Heterodonta Subclass Paleoheterodonta accepted as Palaeoheterodonta | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Muuga harbour (Port of Tallinn, Gulf of Finland) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Classification: Current results in bivalve phylogeny indicate that Anomalodesmata are probably a monophyletic group (Dreyer et al., 2003; Taylor et al., 2007) but nested within Euheterodonta. This provides support to what is proposed by Giribet & Wheeler (2003) to merely merge Anomalodesmata into Heterodonta s.l. (note that Tree of Life still uses Anomalodsmata with equal rank to Pteriomorpha, Paleoheterodonta, Heterodonta...). It is helpful to reflect that these superfamilies go together and therefore keep the name Anomalodesmata as an order of the Euheterodonta. [details] Nomenclature: This class of molluscs probably holds a record of alternative names which have been applied to it. Among these Pelecypoda Goldfuss, 1820 and Lamellibranchiata de Blainville, 1816 have been quite extensively used in XXth century literature but Conchifera Lamarck, 1818 [not to be confused with Conchifera Gegenbaur, 1878, coined for a totally different concept of a taxon uniting all shelled molluscs except Polyplacophora] and Acephala Cuvier, 1795 also appear in the XIXth century literature. Although "Bivalvia" is a valid name for the class and has gained general acceptance following the Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology (Cox in Moore, 1969), some would prefer "Pelecypoda", on the grounds that other animal groups exist with bivalved shells (e.g. Brachiopoda, Ostracoda and some Gastropoda), that some animals attributed to Bivalvia (e.g. Rostroconchia) have non-bivalved shells, and that the name is consonant with other molluscan classes. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Bivalvia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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