Pteriida

Pteriida
A live individual of Pinna nobilis in the Pinnidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Pteriomorphia
Order: Pteriida
Newell, 1965
Families

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Synonyms
Pterioida

The Pteriida are an order of large and medium-sized marine bivalve mollusks. It includes five families, among them the Pteriidae (pearl oysters and winged oysters).

Taxonomy

The following is the phylogenetic tree based on complete mitochondrial genomes per Liu et al. (2019):

Pectinida

Selection of members of the extinct Plicatostylidae

In 2010, a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published by Bieler, Carter & Coan, revising the classification of the Bivalvia, including the suborder Pteriida.

References

  1. ↑ Pterioida Newell, 1965. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
  2. ↑ Galil, Bella; Mendelsohn, Moti (2025). "Too hot for comfort – shallow water populations of the spiny rock oyster Spondylus spinosus (Spondylidae) obliterated by unprecedented heatwaves in the SE Mediterranean Sea". Bollettino Malacologico. 61: 1–4. doi:10.53559/BollMalacol.2024.15.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Asato, Kaito; Kase, Tomoki; Ono, Teruo; Sashida, Katsuo; Agematsu, Sachiko (2017-10-01). "Morphology, Systematics and Paleoecology of Shikamaia, Aberrant Permian Bivalves (Alatoconchidae: Ambonychioidea) from Japan". Paleontological Research. 21: 358–379. doi:10.2517/2017PR002.