List of mollusc orders
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Cuttlefish of the order Sepiida
Pinna nobilis shell and byssus
List of mollusc orders illustrates the 97 Orders in the Phylum mollusca (the largest marine phylum) in the Kingdom animalia, which include 23% of all named marine organisms,[1] and 85,000 extant species.[2]
Contents
Class Aplacophora
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Epimenia verrucosa
Subclass Caudofoveata
No orders, 15 genera, 150 species.
Subclass Solenogastres
- Order Neomeniamorpha
- Order Pholidoskepia
Class Bivalvia
Subclass Heterodonta
File:Tellinella listeri.jpg
The venerid species, Austrovenus stutchburyi
- Order Arcticoidea
- Order Cardioidea
- Order Chamoidea
- Order Clavagelloidea
- Order Crassatelloidea
- Order Cuspidarioidea
- Order Cyamioidea
- Order Cyrenoidea
- Order Cyrenoidoidea
- Order Dreissenoidea
- Order Galeommatoidea
- Order Gastrochaenoidea
- Order Glossoidea
- Order Hemidonacoidea
- Order Hiatelloidea
- Order Limoidea
- Order Lucinoidea
- Order Mactroidea
- Order Myoidea
- Order Pandoroidea
- Order Pholadoidea
- Order Pholadomyoidea
- Order Solenoidea
- Order Sphaerioidea
- Order Tellinoidea
- Order Thyasiroidea
- Order Ungulinoidea
- Order Veneroidea
- Order Verticordioidea
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
- Order Trigonioidea
- Order Unionoidea
Subclass Protobranchia
- Order Manzanelloidea
- Order Nuculanoidea
- Order Nuculoidea
- Order Sapretoidea
- Order Solemyoidea
Subclass Pteriomorpha
A live individual of Argopecten irradians, family Pectinidae
- Order Anomioidea
- Order Arcoidea
- Order Dimyoidea
- Order Limoidea
- Order Mytiloidea
- Order Ostreoidea
- Order Pectinoidea
- Order Pinnoidea
- Order Plicatuloidea
- Order Pterioidea
Class Cephalopoda
Subclass Nautiloidea
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- Order Plectronocerida †
- Order Ellesmerocerida †
- Order Actinocerida †
- Order Pseudorthocerida †
- Order Ascocerida †
- Order Endocerida †
- Order Tarphycerida †
- Order Oncocerida †
- Order Discosorida †
- Order Nautilida
- Order Orthocerida †
- Order Lituitida †
- Order Dissidocerida †
- Order Bactritida †
Subclass Ammonoidea †
Artist's reconstruction of Asteroceras
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- Order Goniatitida †
- Order Prolecanitida †
- Order Ceratitida †
- Order Ammonitida †
Subclass Coleoidea
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- Order Belemnoidea †
- Order Aulacocerida †
- Order Phragmoteuthida †
- Order Donovaniconida †
- Order Belemnitida †
- Order Hematitida †
Cohort Neocoleoidea (most living cephalopods)
- Superorder Decapodiformes
- Order Boletzkyida †
- Order Spirulida ram's horn squid
- Order Sepiida cuttlefish
- Order Sepiolida bobtail squid
- Order Teuthida squid
- Superorder Octopodiformes
- Order Vampyromorphida vampire squid
- Order Octopoda octopus
Class Polyplacophora (Chitons)
- Order Multiplacophora †
- Order Neoloricata
- Order Paleoloricata †
Class Gastropoda
This is highly complex and possibly disputed.
- Order Bellerophontinaka (fossil)
- Order Mimospirina (fossil)
Subclass Eogastropoda
- Order Euomphalida de Koninck 1881 (fossil)
- Order Patellogastropoda Lindberg, 1986 (true limpets)
Live limpets in the intertidal zone in Cornwall, England.
Subclass Orthogastropoda Ponder & David R. Lindberg, 1996
- Order Murchisoniina Cox & Knight, 1960 (fossil)
- Order Neomphaloida Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1983
Superorder Vetigastropoda Salvini-Plawen, 1989 (limpets)
Superorder Neritaemorphi Koken, 1896
- Order Cyrtoneritomorpha (fossil)
- Order Neritopsina Cox & Knight, 1960
Superorder Caenogastropoda Cox, 1960
- Order Architaenioglossa Haller, 1890
- Order Sorbeoconcha Ponder & David R. Lindberg, 1997
- Infraorder Littorinimorpha Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975
conchs)
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- Infraorder Ptenoglossa J.E. Gray, 1853
- Infraorder Neogastropoda Thiele, 1929
Superorder Heterobranchia J.E. Gray, 1840
- Order Heterostropha P. Fischer, 1885
- Order Opisthobranchia Milne-Edwards, 1848
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- Infraorder Euthecosomata
- Infraorder Pseudothecosomata
- Infraorder Anthobranchia Férussac, 1819
- Infraorder Cladobranchia Willan & Morton, 1984
- Suborder Eupulmonata Haszprunar & Huber, 1990
- Infraorder Acteophila Dall, 1885 (= formerly Archaeopulmonata)
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Class Monoplacophora
- Order Tryblidiida
Class Pleistomollusca
This appears to be a proposed clade and not a class, according to wikipedia
Class Rostroconchia †
No information available below class
Class Scaphopoda (Tusk shells)
A tusk shell of the scaphopod Antalis vulgaris
- Order Dentaliida
- Order Gadilida
References
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- ↑ Chapman, A.D. (2009). Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World, 2nd edition. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Retrieved 12 January 2010. ISBN 978-0-642-56860-1 (printed); ISBN 978-0-642-56861-8 (online).
