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Ostreina is a suborder in the bivalve order Ostreoida

Ostreoida

The order Ostreoida includes the true oysters and a number of other related families of bivalves.About eleven families are recognised within it, but suborders, superfamilies and subfamilies are used relatively heavily in this order. The following classification represents a synthesis of different...

and containing the Superfamilies Dimyoidea, Ostreoidea, and Plicatuloidea

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