Heteroconchia
Heteroconchia is a taxonomic infraclass of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs, belonging to the subclass Autobranchia[1]
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Bivalvia | 
| Subclass: | Autobranchia | 
| Infraclass: | Heteroconchia J. E. Gray, 1854  | 
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This infraclass includes the edible clams, the cockles and the Venus clams.[1]
Description
    
These bivalves are distinguished by having the two halves of the shell equally sized (i.e, they are equivalved) and having a few cardinal teeth separated from a number of long lateral teeth. Their shells lack a nacreous layer, and the gills are lamellibranch in form. Most species have a siphon.[2]
Orders and families
    
The following tree is their info which has been updated with the latest information from the World Register of Marine Species:[1]
Infraclass: Heteroconchia
- Unclassified family: †Lipanellidae
 - Subterclass: Archiheterodonta[3][4]
- Order: †Actinodontida[5]
- Superfamily: †Amnigenioidea
- Family: †Amnigeniidae
 - Family: †Montanariidae
 - Family: †Zadimerodiidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Anodontopsoidea
- Family: †Actinodontidae
 - Family: †Anodontopsidae
 - Family: †Baidiostracidae
 - Family: †Cycloconchidae
 - Family: †Intihuarellidae
 - Family: †Redoniidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Nyassoidea
- Family: †Nyassidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Oriocrassatelloidea
- Family: †Crassatellopsidae
 - Family: †Oriocrassatellidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Palaeomuteloidea
- Family: †Palaeomutelidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: †Amnigenioidea
 - Order: Carditida[6]
- Unclassified family: †Archaeocardiidae
 - Unclassified family: †Eodonidae
 - Superfamily: Carditoidea
- Family: †Cardiniidae
 - Family: Carditidae
 - Family: Condylocardiidae
 
 - Superfamily: Crassatelloidea
- Family: †Aenigmoconchidae
 - Family: Astartidae
 - Family: Crassatellidae
 - Family: †Myophoricardiidae
 
 
 
 - Order: †Actinodontida[5]
 - Subterclass: Euheterodonta[7]
- Unassigned Euheterodonta[8]
- Superfamily: †Babinkoidea
 - Superfamily: †Orthonotoidea
 
 - Superorder: Anomalodesmata[9]
- Superfamily: Clavagelloidea
- Family: Clavagellidae
 - Family: Penicillidae
 
 - Superfamily: Cuspidarioidea
- Family: Cuspidariidae
 - Family: Halonymphidae
 - Family: Protocuspidariidae
 - Family: Spheniopsidae
 
 - Superfamily: Myochamoidea
- Family: Cleidothaeridae
 - Family: Myochamidae
 
 - Superfamily: Pandoroidea
- Family: Lyonsiidae
 - Family: Pandoridae
 
 - Superfamily: Pholadomyoidea
- Family: †Arenigomyidae
 - Family: †Margaritariidae
 - Family: Parilimyidae
 - Family: Pholadomyidae
 - Family: †Ucumariidae
 
 - Superfamily: Poromyoidea
- Family: Cetoconchidae
 - Family: Poromyidae
 
 - Superfamily: Thracioidea
- Family: †Burmesiidae
 - Family: Clistoconchidae
 - Family: Laternulidae
 - Family: Periplomatidae
 - Family: Thraciidae
 
 - Superfamily: Verticordioidea
- Family: Euciroidae
 - Family: Lyonsiellidae
 - Family: Verticordiidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: Clavagelloidea
 - Superorder: Imparidentia[10]
- Unassigned Imparidentia
- Unassigned Family: †Palaeocarditidae
 - Superfamily: Cyamioidea
- Family: Cyamiidae
 - Family: Galatheavalvidae
 - Family: Sportellidae
 
 - Superfamily: Gaimardioidea
- Family: Gaimardiidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Grammysioidea
- Family: †Grammysiidae
 - Family: †Sanguinolitidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Kalenteroidea
- Family: †Kalenteridae
 
 
 - Order: Adapedonta[11]
- Superfamily: †Edmondioidea
- Family: †Edmondiidae
 - Family: †Pachydomidae
 
 - Superfamily: Hiatelloidea
- Family: Hiatellidae
 
 - Superfamily: Solenoidea
 
 - Superfamily: †Edmondioidea
 - Order: Cardiida[12]
- Superfamily: Cardioidea
- Family: Cardiidae
 - Family: †Pterocardiidae
 
 - Superfamily: Tellinoidea
- Family: Donacidae
 - Family: †Icanotiidae
 - Family: Psammobiidae
 - Family: †Quenstedtiidae
 - Family: Semelidae
 - Family: Solecurtidae
 - Family: †Sowerbyidae
 - Family: †Tancrediidae
 - Family: Tellinidae
 - Family: †Unicardiopsidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: Cardioidea
 - Order: Galeommatida[13]
- Superfamily: Galeommatoidea
- Family: Basterotiidae
 - Family: Galeommatidae
 - Family: Lasaeidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: Galeommatoidea
 - Order: Gastrochaenida[14]
- Superfamily: Gastrochaenoidea
- Family: Gastrochaenidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: Gastrochaenoidea
 - Order: †Hippuritida (rudists)[15]
- Suborder: †Hippuritidina
- Superfamily: †Caprinoidea
- Family: †Antillocaprinidae
 - Family: †Caprinidae
 - Family: †Caprinuloideidae
 - Family: †Ichthyosarcolitidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Radiolitoidea
- Family: †Caprinulidae
 - Family: †Caprotinidae
 - Family: †Diceratidae
 - Family: †Hippuritidae
 - Family: †Monopleuridae
 - Family: †Plagioptychidae
 - Family: †Polyconitidae
 - Family: †Radiolitidae
 - Family: †Trechmannellidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: †Caprinoidea
 - Suborder: †Requieniidina
- Superfamily: †Requienioidea
- Family: †Epidiceratidae
 - Family: †Requieniidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: †Requienioidea
 
 - Suborder: †Hippuritidina
 - Order: Lucinida[16]
- Superfamily: Lucinoidea
- Family: Lucinidae
 - Family: †Mactromyidae
 - Family: †Paracyclidae
 
 - Superfamily: Thyasiroidea
- Family: Thyasiridae
 
 
 - Superfamily: Lucinoidea
 - Order: †Megalodontida[17]
- Superfamily: †Mecynodontoidea
- Family: †Beichuaniidae
 - Family: †Congeriomorphidae
 - Family: †Mecynodontidae
 - Family: †Plethocardiidae
 - Family: †Prosocoelidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Megalodontoidea
- Family: †Ceratomyopsidae
 - Family: †Dicerocardiidae
 - Family: †Megalodontidae
 - Family: †Pachyrismatidae
 - Family: †Wallowaconchidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: †Mecynodontoidea
 - Order: †Modiomorphida[18]
- Superfamily: †Modiomorphoidea
- Family: †Cypricardiniidae
 - Family: †Hippopodiumidae
 - Family: †Modiomorphidae
 - Family: †Palaeopharidae
 - Family: †Tusayanidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: †Modiomorphoidea
 - Order: Myida[19]
- Superfamily: Dreissenoidea
- Family: Dreissenidae
 
 - Superfamily: Myoidea
- Family: Corbulidae
 - Family: Myidae
 - Family: †Pleurodesmatidae
 - Family: †Raetomyidae
 
 - Superfamily: Pholadoidea
- Family: Pholadidae
 - Family: Teredinidae (shipworms)
 - Family: Xylophagaidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Pleuromyoidea
- Family: †Ceratomyidae
 - Family: †Pleuromyidae
 - Family: †Vacunellidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: Dreissenoidea
 - Order: Sphaeriida[20]
- Superfamily: Sphaerioidea
- Family: †Neomiodontidae
 - Family: Sphaeriidae
 
 
 - Superfamily: Sphaerioidea
 - Order: Venerida[21]
- Superfamily: †Anthracosioidea
- Family: †Anthracosiidae
 - Family: †Ferganoconchida
 - Family: †Shaanxiconchidae
 
 - Superfamily: Arcticoidea
- Family: Arcticidae
 - Family: †Pollicidae
 - Family: Trapezidae
 - Family: †Veniellidae
 
 - Superfamily: Chamoidea
- Family: Chamidae
 
 - Superfamily: Cyrenoidea
- Family: Cyrenidae
 - Family: Cyrenoididae
 - Family: Glauconomidae
 
 - Superfamily: Glossoidea
- Family: Glossidae
 - Family: Kelliellidae
 - Family: †Lutetiidae
 - Family: Vesicomyidae
 
 - Superfamily: Hemidonacoidea
- Family: Hemidonacidae
 
 - Superfamily: Mactroidea
- Family: Anatinellidae
 - Family: Cardiliidae
 - Family: Mactridae
 - Family: Mesodesmatidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Palaeanodontoidea
- Family: †Palaeanodontidae
 
 - Superfamily: †Prilukielloidea
- Family: †Prilukiellidae
 - Family: †Senderzoniellidae
 
 - Superfamily: Ungulinoidea
- Family: Ungulinidae
 
 - Superfamily: Veneroidea
- Family: †Isocyprinidae
 - Family: Neoleptonidae
 - Family: Veneridae
 
 
 - Superfamily: †Anthracosioidea
 
 - Unassigned Imparidentia
 
 - Unassigned Euheterodonta[8]
 
Notes:
- Family †Lyrodesmatidae was classified by Bieler, Carter & Coan (2010) as uncertain Heterodonta but has since been classified as Palaeoheterodonta.[22]
 - Family †Redoniidae was classified by Bieler, Carter & Coan (2010) as uncertain Heterodonta but has since been classified more specifically as Anodontopsoidea.[23]
 - Family †Lipanellidae was classified by Bieler, Carter & Coan (2010) as uncertain Heteroconchia (a proposed infraclass of the proposed bivalve subclass Autobranchia) but has since been classified as uncertain Heterodonta.[24]
 
References
    
- "Heteroconchia". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
 - Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 340. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.
 - Archiheterodonta Giribet in Taylor, Williams, Glover & Dyal, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 February 2009.
 - Giribet G. 2008. Bivalvia. Pp. 105-141, in: Ponder W.F. & Lindberg D.L. (eds), Molluscan Phylogeny. Berkeley: University of California Press, xi+469 pp.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Actinodontida †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
 - Carditoida Dall, 1889. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 August 2010.
 - Euheterodonta Giribet in Taylor, Williams, Glover & Dyal, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 February 2009.
 - Unassigned Euheterodonta. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 July 2009.
 - Anomalodesmata Dall, 1889. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Imparidentia". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Adapedonta". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cardiida". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Galeommatida". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Gastrochaenida". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Hippuritida †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - Lucinoida Gray, 1854. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2010.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Megalodontida †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Modiomorphida †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - Myoida Stoliczka, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Sphaeriida". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
 - Veneroida Gray, 1854. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lyrodesmatidae P. Fischer, 1886 †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Redoniidae Babin, 1966 †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
 - "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipanellidae Sánchez, 2005 †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
 
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