Description:
Original description: "Ligament marginal, allongé sur le bord, sublinéaire.
Les Mytilacées.
Les Malléacées."
(Lamarck, 1818: 424.)
Taxonomic notes:
Original spelling: Les Malléacées (French vernacular; ), first latinized by Children, 1823:34.
-inae [as "trib. Malleacea" below family Mytilidae, n.t. Morchm 1853:49
-oidea, n.t., Nevesskaya et al., 1971, palont. Zhurnal 2:15.
Typification:
Type species: Malleus Lamarck, 1799.