Lucinoida

Lucinida (formerly Lucinoida) is a taxonomic order of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs.

Families

In 2010, a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published in by Bieler, Carter & Coan, revising the classification of the Bivalvia.^[2] Lucinoida (now Lucinida) thus became an order of its own.^[1] It includes the following two superfamilies:

• Superfamily: Lucinoidea
  • Family: Lucinidae
  • Family: †Mactromyidae
  • Family: †Paracyclidae
• Superfamily: Thyasiroidea
  • Family: Thyasiridae

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