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"Foot not byssiferous; mantle fringed behind. Shell not eared, without any anterior byssal groove; hinge toothless. Living in sponges." (Gray, 1854: 418.)
Original spelling: Crenatulina (Gray, 1854: 418).
Type genus: Crenatula Lamarck, 1803.
Original spelling: Margaritacea .
Also declared new [as Margaritadae] by Swainson, 1831: 2; pl. 1
Type species: Margarita Leach, 1814.
Original description: "Ligament marginal, allongé sur le bord, sublinéaire.
Les Mytilacées.
Les Malléacées."
(Lamarck, 1818: 424.)
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.
Type species: Malleus Lamarck, 1799.
Pulished simultaneously by H. & A. Adams, 1875 [December], The genera of Recent…2:523: priority not established. -inae, [as -ana], n.t. Bronn, 1862, Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Weichthiere 3(1):474, 498.
Type genus: Vulsella Röding, 1798
When he established the name, Woodring did not side Pernidae or Melinidae but cited Perna and Melina as synonyms of Isognomon. Isognomonidae is in prevailing usage and it is conserved under Art. 40.2 with the precedence of Pernidae (1828). -inae, n.t. Eberzin, 1960. Osnovy paleontologii, molluski...:80; -oidea, n.t. Nevesskaya, 2003, Paleontologichesky Zhurnal 37:suppl.6:617.
Type genus: Isognomon [Lightfoot], 1786
The name Aviculidae was replaced with Pteriidae Gray, 1847, because it was based on a junior synonym, which, however, does not suffice for the name replaement (ICZN 1999, Art. 40.1). However, the older name Pteriidae was maintained due to its prevailing usage (ICZN 1999 Art. 40.2) with precedence of Aviculidae.
Original spelling: Aviculae (Goldfuss, 1820: 607).
- inae [as trib. Aviculidae, below fam. Mytilacea, n.t. Morch, 1853, 2: 50;
oidea [as --acea], n.t. Gill, 1871, Smithsomnian Miscellaneous collections: 227:21.
Original taxonomic composition: Avicula (=Pteria+Pinctada)
Type genus: Avicula Bruguière, 1791 or 2.
The original descrition consisted of the list of included genera.
Pteriidae Gray, 1847: 199-200 [spelled as "PTERIADÆ"].
Original spelling: PTERIADÆ (Gray, 1847: 199).
Gray (1840) used the name Aviculidae, when established Pteriidae, he did not cite Aviculidae but cited Avicula as synonym of Pteria.
Pteriidae is in prevailing usage and it is conserved by ICZN Art. 40 with precedence of Aviculidae Goldfuss, 1820.
-inae [as Pteriacna], n.t. Gray, 1854, The Annals and Mag. of Nat Hist ser.2, 13:418;
-oidea [as -acea], Dall, 1895, Trans. of the Wagner Free Institute of Science,m Philadelphia 3(3(:518. Conserved over and given precedence (1820) of Aviculidae by Hertlein & Cox, 1969:302.
The taxonomic scope in the original publication: Malleus, Baphia (Vulsella?), Pteria, Margaritiphora, Crenatula, Dalacia, Melina.
Type genus: Pteria Scopoli, 1777.
