摘要：More than 40 years have passed since the bivalve volumes of the “Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology” were published (Moore 1969, 1971) that pro- vided the backbone of bivalve taxonomy since then. The time in between saw new discoveries and new phylogenies, which were increasingly built on a combination of shell morphological, anatomical, and molecular data. Several attempts to re-classify the Bivalvia down to family level were published. However, none of these approaches included all family group taxa. Moreover, the concepts were restricted to Recent Bivalvia, excluded or emphasised particular types of data, and/or were largely based on secondary sources (e.g., Amler 1999; Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006; Nevesskaja 2009).
