Myida | |
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A live individual of the soft-shelled clam, Mya arenaria | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Infraclass: | Heteroconchia |
Subterclass: | Euheterodonta |
Superorder: | Imparidentia |
Order: | Myida Stoliczka, 1870 |
Superfamilies and families | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Myoida |
Myida (formerly Myoida) is an order of saltwater and freshwater clams, marine and freshwater bivalve molluscs in the subclass Heterodonta. The order includes such bivalves as soft-shell clams, geoducks and shipworms.