Dreissenoidea is a superfamily of

brackish Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuari ...

water and

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...

false mussels,

aquatic Aquatic means relating to water; living in or near water or taking place in water; does not include groundwater, as "aquatic" implies an environment where plants and animals live. Aquatic(s) may also refer to: * Aquatic animal, either vertebrate ...

bivalve Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...

molluscs Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

in the order

Myida Myida (formerly Myoida) is an order (biology), order of saltwater and freshwater clams, marine (ocean), marine and freshwater bivalve molluscs in the subclass Heterodonta. The order includes such bivalves as soft-shell clams, geoducks and shipwor ...

Families

Families within the superfamily Dreisseniodea include: *

Dreissenidae The Dreissenidae are a family of small freshwater aquatic bivalve molluscs, commonly called ''mussels'' although not at all closely related to true mussels. The shells of these bivalves are shaped somewhat like those of true mussels, which they ...

References

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Myida Mollusc superfamilies Monotypic protostome taxa {{Bivalve-stub