Pectinida

Translingual

Etymology

Pecten +‎ -ida

Proper noun

Pectinida

1. A taxonomic order within the class Bivalvia – scallops and close relatives.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Bivalvia - class; Pteriomorphia - subclass

Hyponyms

• (order): Anomioidea, Dimyoidea, Pectinoidea, Plicatuloidea - extant superfamilies
  • Anomiidae, Dimyidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae, Placunidae, Plicatulidae, Propeamussiidae, Spondylidae - extant families
  • †Aviculopectinoidea, †Buchioidea, †Chaenocardioidea, †Entolioidea, †Euchondrioidea, †Eurydesmatoidea, †Heteropectinoidea, †Oxytomoidea, †Prospondyloidea, †Pterinopectinoidea - extinct superfamilies

See also

• Pectinoida

References

• Pectinoida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pectinina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pectinida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Pectinida at World Register of Marine Species
• Pectinida at the Catalogue of Life 
• Pectinida at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Pteriomorphia at the Tree of Life Web Project
• “Pectinida”, in Paleobiology Database, 2025
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI