Conchifera

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Conchifera
Giant clam or Tridacna gigas.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Subphylum: Conchifera
Gegenbaur, 1878 [1]
Classes

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Conchifera is a subphylum of the phylum Mollusca. It comprises all of the shell-bearing classes of molluscs, including the snails, clams, tusk shells, ammonites, monoplacophorans, and so on. The other one is Aculifera. [1] Non-monoplacophoran conchiferans emerged within the once-widespread Monoplacophora, whose only descendant which retains its ancestral shape being the Tryblidiida.

This taxonomic term is used mostly by paleontologists, and not by scientists who study the living molluscs.

Classes[]

Classes within the Conchifera include:

See also[]

  • Evolution of Mollusca

References[]

  1. ^ Sigwart, Julia D.; Sutton, Mark D. (October 27, 2007). "Deep Molluscan Phylogeny: Synthesis of Palaeontological and Neontological Data". Proceedings: Biological Sciences. 274: 2413–2419. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
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