Bivalvia

Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Bivalvia

1. 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,  - subclasses
  • Heteroconchia, Pteriomorphia - superorders in Autobranchia
    • , , Myida, , , Unionida, Veneroida; Arcida, , Mytilida, Ostreida, Pectinida, ; , ,  - orders

Coordinate terms

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

See also

• Heterodonta

Translations

taxonomic class

• German: Muschel (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Turkish: midye (tr)

References

• Bivalvia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bivalvia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category: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. PMID 25923521, →DOI