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List of mollusc orders

List of mollusc orders illustrates the 97 orders in the phylum Mollusca, the largest marine animal phylum. 85,000 extant species are described, making up 23% of described marine organisms.

Class Aplacophora

Subclass Caudofoveata

No orders, 6 families, 15 genera, 150 species.

Subclass Solenogastres

Testaria (unranked)

Class Polyplacophora (Chitons)

Subphylum Conchifera

Class Bivalvia

Subclass Heterodonta
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
Subclass Protobranchia
Subclass Pteriomorphia

Class Cephalopoda

Subclass Nautiloidea
Subclass Ammonoidea â€Â

Subclass Coleoidea

Division Belemnitida
Division Neocoleoidea (most living cephalopods)

Class Gastropoda

This overview of orders follows the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997):

Subclass Eogastropoda

Subclass Orthogastropoda <small>Ponder & David R. Lindberg, 1996</small>

  • Order Murchisoniina <small>Cox & Knight, 1960</small> (fossil)
  • Order Neomphaloida <small>Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1983</small>

Superorder Vetigastropoda <small>Salvini-Plawen, 1989</small> (limpets)

Superorder Neritaemorphi <small>Koken, 1896</small>

Superorder Caenogastropoda <small>Cox, 1960</small>

Superorder Heterobranchia <small>J.E. Gray, 1840</small>

Class Monoplacophora

  • Order Tryblidiida

Class Rostroconchia â€Â

  • Order Conocardiida † <small>Newell, 1965</small>
  • Order Ribeirioida † <small>Kobayashi, 1933</small>
  • Order Tuarangiida † <small>MacKinnon, 1982</small>

Class Scaphopoda (Tusk shells)

See also

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