List of mollusc orders

List of mollusc orders illustrates the 97 orders in the phylum Mollusca, the largest marine animal phylum. 85,000 extant species are described,[1] making up 23% of described marine organisms.[2]

Class Aplacophora

Subclass Caudofoveata

No orders, 6 families, 15 genera, 150 species.

Subclass Solenogastres

Testaria (unranked)

Class Polyplacophora (Chitons)

Subphylum Conchifera

Class Bivalvia

Subclass Heterodonta
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
Subclass Protobranchia
  • Superfamily Manzanelloidea
  • Superfamily Nuculanoidea
  • Superfamily Nuculoidea
  • Superfamily Sapretoidea
  • Superfamily Solemyoidea
Subclass Pteriomorphia

Class Cephalopoda

Subclass Nautiloidea
Subclass Ammonoidea †

Subclass Coleoidea

Division Belemnitida
Division Neocoleoidea (most living cephalopods)

Class Gastropoda

Further information: Gastropoda § Taxonomy

This overview of orders follows the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997):

Subclass Eogastropoda

Subclass Orthogastropoda Ponder & David R. Lindberg, 1996

  • Order Murchisoniina Cox & Knight, 1960 (fossil)
  • Order Neomphaloida Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1983

Superorder Vetigastropoda Salvini-Plawen, 1989 (limpets)

Superorder Neritaemorphi Koken, 1896

  • Order Cyrtoneritomorpha (fossil)
  • Order Neritopsina Cox & Knight, 1960

Superorder Caenogastropoda Cox, 1960

Superorder Heterobranchia J.E. Gray, 1840

Class Monoplacophora

  • Order Tryblidiida

Class Rostroconchia †

  • Order Conocardiida † Newell, 1965
  • Order Ribeirioida † Kobayashi, 1933
  • Order Tuarangiida † MacKinnon, 1982

Class Scaphopoda (Tusk shells)

See also

References

  1. ^ Chapman, A.D. (2009). Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World, 2nd edition. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Retrieved 12 January 2010. ISBN 978-0-642-56860-1 (printed); ISBN 978-0-642-56861-8 (online).
  2. ^ Hancock, Rebecca (2008). "Recognising research on molluscs". Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 2009-05-30. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
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