WoRMS taxon details
Ostreoidea
AphiaID: 151323
AphiaID: 151323
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Ostreoida (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Superfamily | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ostreoida | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184. [details] additional source: Inaba A. & K. Torigoe (2004) Oysters in the world. Part 2. Systematic description of the Recent oysters. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 3: 63 + 9 pp., 13 pls. [details] additional source: Stenzel H.B., 1971. Oysters. In, Moore, R.C. (Ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, pt. N, vol. 3, Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, pp. N953–N1224. [details] additional source: Harry H. W. (1985). Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28: 121-158 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa | Family Gryphaeidae Vialov, 1936 Family Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151323 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Ostreoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151323 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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