Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Mollusca - (Class) Bivalvia - (Order) Venerida - (Family) Mactridae

Original position

Testacea (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Mactrinae (Subfamily) Lamarck, 1809

Current position

Mactrinae (Subfamily) Lamarck, 1809

Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 387.

Alternative positions

Mactridae (Family) Lamarck, 1809	Ref: E.E. Ruppert et al., 2004: 401.
Testacea (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1767: 1125. [new taxon]

Historical positions

Mactridae (Family) Lamarck, 1809	Ref: E.E. Ruppert et al., 2004: 401.
Mactridae (Family) Lamarck, 1809	Ref: P. Bouchet et al., 2001: 209.
Mactrinae (Subfamily) Lamarck, 1809	Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 387.
Mactridae (Family) Lamarck, 1809	Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
Mactrinae (Subfamily) Lamarck, 1809	Ref: F.J. Springsteen & F.M. Leobrera, 1986: 366.
Mactrinae (Subfamily) Lamarck, 1809	Ref: K.J. Boss, 1982: 1141.
Heterodonta (Order) Neumayr, 1884	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Testacea (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1767: 1073, 1125. [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

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