Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia

Venerida Gray, 1854

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Arcticoidea R. B. Newton, 1891 (1844)
Chamoidea Lamarck, 1809
Cyrenoidea J. E. Gray, 1840
Glossoidea J. E. Gray, 1847 (1840)
Mactroidea Lamarck, 1809
Ungulinoidea J. E. Gray, 1854
Veneroidea Rafinesque, 1815

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Greek: Βενεροειδή sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: veneroidi sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: kjempemuslinger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: венероиды sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: midyeler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Венероїдні; Венероїдоподібні

Literature

basis of record	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
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	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.