Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Bivalvia
Subclassis: Heterodonta
Ordo: Veneroida
Superfamilia: Corbiculoidea
Familia: Sphaeriidae
Genera: Musculium - Pisidium - Sphaerium
Name
Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1862 (1854) [placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology by Melville (1985), with the Name Number 573; emended by ICZN (2000)]
Type genus
* Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777 [stem = Sphaeri-] (Melville, 1985)
References
cited sources
* ICZN 2000: Opinion 1957. Sphaerius Waltl, 1838 (Insecta, Coleoptera): conserved; and Sphaeriidae Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera): spelling emended to Sphaeriusidae, so removing the homonymy with Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1854 (1820) (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 57: 182-184. ISSN: 0007-5167 BioStor
* Melville, R.V. 1985: Opinion 1331. Sphaeriidae Jeffreys, 1862 (1820) (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and Microsporidae Reichardt, 1976 (Insecta, Coleoptera): placed on the official list. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 42: 230-232. ISSN: 0007-5167 BioStor
additional references
* Baker, F.C. 1927: On the division of the Sphaeriidae into two subfamilies: and the description of a new genus of Unionidae, with descriptions of new varieties. American midland naturalist, 10: 220-223. JSTOR
* Cooley, L.R.; Foighil, D.Ó. 2000: Phylogenetic analysis of the Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) based on partial mitochondrial 16s rDNA gene sequences. Invertebrate biology, 119: 299-308. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00016.x[doi broken/unregistered! Stho002 (talk) 02:22, 7 July 2010 (UTC)] JSTOR
* Korniushin, A.V. 2000: Review of the family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum, 52: 41-102.
* Korniushin, A.V. 2002: Morphological characters analysis, the intergroup phylogenetic relationships and possible outgroups of the family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Vestnik zoologii, 36(4): 3—22. PDF
* Korniushin, A.; Glaubrecht, M. 2001: Annotated catalogue of type specimens of Sphaeriidae (Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Veneroida) in the mollusc collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, with a review of their current taxonomic status. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologische Reihe, 77: 131-152. doi: 10.1002/mmnz.20010770119[doi broken/unregistered! Stho002 (talk) 01:42, 7 July 2010 (UTC)]
* Watson, A.M.; Ormerod, S.J. 2005: The distribution and conservation of threatened Sphaeriidae on British grazing marshland. Biodiversity and conservation, 14: 2207-2220. ISSN: 0960-3115 (Print) 1572-9710 (Online) doi: 10.1007/s10531-004-4670-4
