Myida
| Myida | |
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| A live individual of the soft-shelled clam, Mya arenaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Infraclass: | Euheterodonta |
| Superorder: | |
| Order: | Myida Stoliczka, 1870 |
| Superfamilies and families | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Myoida | |
Myida (formerly Myoida) is an order of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subclass Heterodonta. The order includes such bivalves as soft-shell clams, geoducks and shipworms.
Description[]
They are burrowing molluscs with well-developed siphons. The shell is relatively soft and lacks a nacreous layer. Some species have a single cardinal tooth.[1]
Superfamilies and families[]
Superfamilies and families within the Myida include:[2]
- Superfamily: Dreissenoidea
- Family: Dreissenidae
- Superfamily: Myoidea
- Family: Corbulidae
- Family: Myidae
- Family: †
- Family: †
- Superfamily:
- Family: Pholadidae
- Family: Teredinidae
- Family: Xylophagaidae
- Superfamily: †
- Family: †
- Family: †
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References[]
- ^ Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 431. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Myida". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
External links[]
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