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Mollusca 
AphiaID: 51

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1
Rank Phylum
Parent Animalia
Sources  basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Ponder W.F. & Lindberg D.R. (eds.) 2008. Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca. University of California Press, Berkeley, 488 pp.  [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch mollusken  [details]
Dutch weekdieren  [details]
English molluscs  [details]
French mollusques  [details]
Spanish moluscos  [details]
Swedish blötdjur  [details]
Ukrainian М'якуни  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Class Bivalvia
Class Caudofoveata
Class Cephalopoda
Class Gastropoda
Class Monoplacophora
Class Polyplacophora
Class Scaphopoda
Class Solenogastres

Subphylum Aculifera (alternate representation, presumably paraphyletic taxon)
Subphylum Conchifera (alternate representation)
Subphylum Placophora (alternate representation)

Class Conchifera accepted as Bivalvia
Class Lamellibranchiata accepted as Bivalvia
Class Loricata accepted as Polyplacophora
Class Pelecypoda accepted as Bivalvia
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:51
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Mollusca. In: Hayward, B.W., Cedhagen, T., Kaminski, M., Gross, O. (2013) World Modern Foraminifera Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=51 on 2013-05-23
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