Myoida
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| Myoida | |
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| Soft-shelled clam, Mya arenaria | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Myoida Stoliczka, 1870 |
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Myoida is an order of bivalve molluscs. 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]
The order includes such molluscs as soft-shell clams, geoducks, and shipworms.
[edit] Classification
- Superfamily Anomalodesmacea
- Superfamily Gastrochaenoidea
- Superfamily Hiatelloidea
- Superfamily Myoidea
- Superfamily Pholadoidea
[edit] References
- ^ Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 431. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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