List of mollusc orders

Cuttlefish of the order Sepiida
Pinna nobilis shell and byssus

List of mollusc orders illustrates the 97 Orders in the Phylum mollusca (the largest marine phylum) in the Kingdom animalia, which include 23% of all named marine organisms,[1] and 85,000 extant species.[2]

Class Aplacophora

Epimenia verrucosa

Subclass Caudofoveata

No orders, 15 genera, 150 species.

Subclass Solenogastres

Class Bivalvia

Subclass Heterodonta

The right valve of a shell of Tellinella listeri, anterior end towards the right

Subclass Palaeoheterodonta

Subclass Protobranchia

Subclass Pteriomorpha

A live individual of Argopecten irradians, family Pectinidae

Class Cephalopoda

Subclass Nautiloidea

A nautiloid

Subclass Ammonoidea

Artist's reconstruction of Asteroceras

Subclass Coleoidea

Cohort Neocoleoidea (most living cephalopods)

Class Polyplacophora (Chitons)

Class Gastropoda

This is highly complex and possibly disputed.

Subclass Eogastropoda

Live limpets in the intertidal zone in Cornwall, England.

Subclass Orthogastropoda Ponder & David R. Lindberg, 1996

Superorder Vetigastropoda Salvini-Plawen, 1989 (limpets)

The shell of an archaeogastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus. A serpulid worm is attached.

Superorder Neritaemorphi Koken, 1896

Superorder Caenogastropoda Cox, 1960

conchs)

Superorder Heterobranchia J.E. Gray, 1840

Class Monoplacophora

Class Pleistomollusca

This appears to be a proposed clade and not a class, according to wikipedia

Class Rostroconchia

No information available below class

Class Scaphopoda (Tusk shells)

A tusk shell of the scaphopod Antalis vulgaris

References

  1. Hancock, Rebecca (2008). "Recognising research on molluscs". Australian Museum. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
  2. Chapman, A.D. (2009). Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World, 2nd edition. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Retrieved 12 January 2010. ISBN 978-0-642-56860-1 (printed); ISBN 978-0-642-56861-8 (online).
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