WoRMS taxon details
Cyamioidea
AphiaID: 14630
AphiaID: 14630
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1 | |||||||
| Rank | Superfamily | |||||||
| Parent | Veneroida | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: 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. [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa | Family Basterotiidae Cossmann, 1909 Family Cyamiidae G. O. Sars, 1878 Family Galatheavalvidae Knudsen, 1970 Family Sportellidae Dall, 1899 | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||
| Note |
Classification: This is a highly contentious grouping, whose members are of small size and mostly have external ligaments. The relationship of some genera to the Galeommatoidea (mostly with internal ligaments), are not yet resolved. [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:14630 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Cyamioidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=14630 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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