BeRMS taxon details
Bivalvia
- Subclass Autobranchia
- Subclass Protobranchia
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886, https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/getref.asp?id=2787
page(s): 645 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 645 [details] Available for editors
BeRMS (2025). Bivalvia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105 on 2026-04-25
VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Bivalvia. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105 on 2026-04-25
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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886, https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/getref.asp?id=2787
page(s): 645 [details] Available for editors
additional source Taylor J. D., Kennedy W. J. & Hall A. (1973). The Shell Structure and Mineralogy of the Bivalvia. II. Lucinacea-Clavagellacea. Conclusions. <i>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, London 22 (9)</i>: 253-294, pl. 15, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26495507 [details]
additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2006). Bivalvia – a look at the Branches. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 148 (3): 223-235., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00255.x [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. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details]
additional source Cox, L. R. et al. (1969). Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. In: Moore, R.C. (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 2 vol., 951 pp. [details]
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. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 28(1): 32-115., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=IS13010 [details]
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. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.</em> 286 (1896): 20182684., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.2684 [details]
page(s): 645 [details] Available for editors
additional source Taylor J. D., Kennedy W. J. & Hall A. (1973). The Shell Structure and Mineralogy of the Bivalvia. II. Lucinacea-Clavagellacea. Conclusions. <i>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, London 22 (9)</i>: 253-294, pl. 15, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26495507 [details]
additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2006). Bivalvia – a look at the Branches. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 148 (3): 223-235., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00255.x [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. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details]
additional source Cox, L. R. et al. (1969). Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. In: Moore, R.C. (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 2 vol., 951 pp. [details]
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. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 28(1): 32-115., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=IS13010 [details]
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. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.</em> 286 (1896): 20182684., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.2684 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | tweekleppigen | [details] |
| English | bivalves and clamsbivalves | [details] |
| German | Muscheln | [details] |
| Japanese | 二枚貝綱 | [details] |
| Russian | двустворчатые моллюски | [details] |
| Swedish | musslor | [details] |
| Ukrainian | Двостулкові молюскиДвостулкові | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bivalvia)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 050093)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bivalvia)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 050093)
To ITIS
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