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Bivalvia

105 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Bivalvia
Linnaeus, 1758
accepted
Class
Mollusca
Conchifera · unaccepted (synonym)
Lamellibranchiata · unaccepted (synonym)
Pelecypoda · unaccepted (synonym)

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  1. Subclass Autobranchia
  2. Subclass Protobranchia
  3. Subclass Paleoheterodonta accepted as Palaeoheterodonta (Spelling variation)
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. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 645 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
ERMS (2026). Bivalvia. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105 on 2026-08-02
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Bivalvia. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=105 on 2026-08-02
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2009-01-30 14:43:20Z
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Gofas, Serge
2016-05-09 08:14:19Z
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Gofas, Serge
2019-08-08 17:02:58Z
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Vinarski, Maxim

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 645 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

original description (of Pelecypoda) 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] 

original description (of Lamellibranchiata) Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1816). Prodrome d'une nouvelle distribution systématique du règne animal. [Prodrome of a new systematic distribution of the animal kingdom.]. <em>Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris.</em> 1816: 105-112 [sic for 113-120] +121-124., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153426
page(s): 122 [details] 

original description (of Conchifera) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): vol. 5 p. 411 [details] 

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] 
 
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Dutch tweekleppigen  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bivalvia) 
To Genbank (from synonym Pelecypoda)
To Genbank (from synonym Lamellibranchiata)
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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