Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia

Nuculanida J. G. Carter, D. C. Campbell & M. R. Campbell, 2000

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Nuculanoidea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (1854)
Sareptoidea Stoliczka, 1870

original description	Carter, J. G.; Campbell, D. C.; Campbell, M. R. (2000). Cladistic perspectives on early bivalve evolution. In E. M. Harper, J. D. Taylor, & J. A. Crame, eds., The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia. The Geological Society of London, Special Publication. 177:47–79.
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.
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	Sato, K., Kano, Y., Setiamarga, D. H. E., Watanabe, H. K. & Sasaki, T. (2020). Molecular phylogeny of protobranch bivalves and systematic implications of their shell microstructure. Zoologica Scripta. 49: 458-472.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nuculanida. 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:203