Umbonal musculature and relationships of the Late Triassic filibranch unionoid bivalves
Author
Skawina, Aleksandra
Author
Dzik, Jerzy
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2011
2011-10-25
163
3
863
883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00728.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00728.x
0024-4082
5441920
ORDER
UNIONIDA STOLICZKA, 1871
Emended diagnosis:
Freshwater bivalves characterized by linearly arranged pedal elevator attachments in the beak region, but having plesiomorphic nacreous internal shell layer, and, in underived forms, transversely ribbed cardinal teeth of the hinge.
Nomenclatorial remark:
We prefer
Unionida
, rather than
Unionoida
or Unioniformes (
Bogan & Roe, 2008
), because the ending -ida, not -oida, is generally applied to the genus-derived roots of ordinal-rank names in other molluscan classes and many animal phyla, but the vernacular name ‘unionoids’ is here applied to members of the order to allow a distinction from the family rank taxon
Unionidae
.