Pectinoidea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Bivalvia
Subclassis: Pteriomorphia
Ordo: Pectinida
Superfamilia: Pectinoidea
Familiae: Cyclochlamydidae - Entoliidae - Pectinidae - Propeamussiidae - Spondylidae - †Monotidae

Name

Pectinoidea Rafinesque, 1815

References

Dijkstra, H.H.; Marshall, B.A. 2008: The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae). Molluscan research, 28: 1–88.

The Pectinoidea are a superfamily of marine bivalve molluscs, including the scallops and spiny oysters.[1]
Shell anatomy

All members of this superfamily have a triangular resilium with a nonmineralized medial core that functions below the hinge line.[2]
Families

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the Pectinoidea include these families:

Cyclochlamydidae
Entoliidae
Neitheidae †
Pectinidae (scallops)
Pleuronectitidae †
Propeamussiidae some are known as glass scallops
Spondylidae thorny oysters
Tosapectinidae †

Families brought into synonymy

Propeamussidae: synonym of Propeamussiidae
Syncyclonematidae: synonym of Entoliidae

References

Raines, B. K. & Poppe, G. T. (2006): "The Family Pectinidae". In: Poppe, G. T. & Groh, K.: A Conchological Iconography. 402 pp., 320 color plts., ConchBooks, Hackenheim, ISBN 3-925919-78-3.
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.
Dijkstra H.H. & Maestrati P. (2012) Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae n. fam., Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Vanuatu Archipelago. Zoosystema 34(2): 389-408. [29 June 2012]

Gofas, S. (2012). Pectinoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151320 on 2012-07-08

WALLER, THOMAS R. (2006). "Phylogeny of families in the Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia): importance of the fossil record". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 148 (3): 313–342. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00258.x.