Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca

Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Conchifera*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Lamellibranchiata*	Blainville, 1816	synonym
*Pelecypoda*	Goldfuss, 1820	synonym

Children

Autobranchia Grobben, 1894
Eulamellibranchia
Protobranchia Pelseneer, 1889

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: tweekleppigen sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

English: bivalves; bivalves; bivalves and clams sources: Charles Hussey;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: musslor sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Двостулкові; Двостулкові молюски

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
additional source	Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M.; Collins, T. M.; Glover, E. A.; González, V. L.; Graf, D. L.; Harper, E. M.; Healy, J.; Kawauchi, G. Y.; Sharma, P. P.; Staubach, S.; Strong, E. E.; Taylor, J. D.; Tëmkin, I.; Zardus, J. D.; Clark, S.; Guzmán, A.; McIntyre, E.; Sharp, P.; Giribet, G. (2014). Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life – an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics. 28(1): 32-115.
additional source	Cox, L. R. et al. (1969). Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. In: Moore, R.C. (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 2 vol., 951 pp.
additional source	Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2006). Bivalvia – a look at the Branches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 148 (3): 223-235.
additional source	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.
additional source	Taylor J. D., Kennedy W. J. & Hall A. (1973). The Shell Structure and Mineralogy of the Bivalvia. II. Lucinacea-Clavagellacea. Conclusions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, London 22 (9): 253-294, pl. 15
additional source	Lemer, S.; Bieler, R.; Giribet, G. (2019). Resolving the relationships of clams and cockles: dense transcriptome sampling drastically improves the bivalve tree of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1896): 20182684.