Bivalvia

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin bi- +‎ Latin valva (“leaf of a door”)

Proper noun

Bivalvia

A taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca – the bivalve molluscs.

Hypernyms

(class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Mollusca - phylum

Hyponyms

(class): Autobranchia, Protobranchia - subclasses
- Heteroconchia, Pteriomorphia - superorders in Autobranchia
  - Carditida, Lucinida, Myida, Pholadomyida, Trigoniida, Unionida, Veneroida; Arcida, Limida, Mytilida, Ostreida, Pectinida, Pteriiida; Nuculanida, Nuculida, Solemyoida - orders

Coordinate terms

(class in Mollusca): Caudofoveata, Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Monoplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Solenogastres - classes

See also

Translations

taxonomic class

German: Muschel (de) f

Turkish: midye (tr)

References

Bivalvia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bivalvia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Bivalvia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Bivalvia at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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