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

Conchifera Gegenbaur, 1878

Rank: Subphylum
Taxon Status: unaccepted
Name Status: alternate representation
note: A group proposed, with equal rank to Placophora, for including all molluscs except the chitons, included in Placophora. Nowadays used for all molluscs excluding Polyplacophora, Solenogastres and Caudofoveata but it must be kept in mind the latter groups,

Literature

original description

Gegenbaur C. (1878). Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie. Zweite verbesserte Auflage. Leipzig, W. Engelmann. 655 p.

additional source

Salvini-Plawen L. (1980). A reconsideration of systematic in the Mollusca (Phylogeny and higher classification). Malacologia 19 (2): 249-278

additional source

Kocot, K. M., Todt, C., Mikkelsen, N. T. & Halanych, K. M. (2019). Phylogenomics of Aplacophora (Mollusca, Aculifera) and a solenogaster without a foot. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1902): 1-9.

additional source

Waller, Thomas R. 1998. Origin of the molluscan class Bivalvia and a phylogeny of major groups, in P.A. Johnston and J.W. Haggart eds., Bivalves: An eon of evolution: Calgary, University of Calgary Press, p. 1-45.

additional source

Steiner G. & Dreyer, H. 2003- Molecular phylogeny of Scaphopoda (Mollusca) inferred from 18S rDNA sequences: support for a Scaphopoda-Cephalopoda clade. Zoologica Scripta 32: 343-356.

additional source

Runnegar B. & Pojeta, J. 1974 Molluscan phylogeny: the paleontological viewpoint. Science 186 (4161): pp.311-317

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Conchifera. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:18826

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