The PEDIGREE of
Superclass Conchifera

     (all except Monoplacophora form a clade)

 "Child(ren)":       Class Gastropoda (Snails & Slugs & Limpets & etc.)   ;   Class Cephalopoda   ;   Class Bivalvia (Clams & Oysters & etc.)   ;   Monoplacophora   ;   Scaphopoda (tusk shells)   ;   112000 species altogether
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/-- (NN), a Nucleated Cell   +====> [ 51]
/-- Domain of Eukaryotes
/  \-- Pre-Mitochondrion Bacteria   +====> [ 46]
/-- Superempire Unikonta
/-- Empire of Opisthokonts (Fungi & Animals)
/-- Superkingdom Holozoa
/-- Kingdom of Animals
/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa (Multicellular Animals)
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates  (570 M BC)
/   | (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   | or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Lophotrochozoa
/-- Supraphylum Trochozoa
/-- Phylum Mollusca
/  
- Superclass Conchifera
 


  ``3-Great Grandchildren:''       Genus Haliotis (Abalone)   ;   Suborder Incirrina   ;   Suborder Oegopsina   ;   Superfamily Ostreoidea
 
  ``7-Great Grandchild:''       Pacific oyster
 

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