Alternative spelling: Noetinae
Parent taxon: Arcidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also da Silva Forti 1969, Eames 1951, Gardner 1945, Matsubara et al. 2010, Reinhart 1943, Tashiro and Kozai 1982 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Ambrogia, Anadarinae, Angulararca, Arcinae, Asperarca, Barbatia, Bathyarca, Bentharca, Coraliarca, Fugleria, Karasuarca, Kikaiarca, Litharcinae, Palestinarca, Quadrilatera, Rostarca
Subtaxa: Arginella Arginopsis Didimacar Halonanus Hoernesarca Matsumotoa Noetiini Noetiopsis Protonoetia Sheldonella Striarcini Trinacriini
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Italy (3), Japan (3), Kenya (1), Mayotte (4), the Netherlands (1), Spain (1), Taiwan (11), Thailand (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (7)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Cyprus (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Panama (3), the Philippines (1), Spain (4), United States (9: Virginia)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Bulgaria (2), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Indonesia (6), Italy (1), Japan (3), Morocco (1), the Philippines (2), Poland (5), Slovakia (4), United States (18: Florida, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Oligocene of France (3), United States (4: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Belgium (4), Colombia (2), Egypt (2), France (4), Hungary (1), Japan (3), Mexico (1), Nigeria (12), Peru (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (147: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (13: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Colombia (1), India (1), Japan (15), Mexico (1), Peru (1), Spain (1), United States (345: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 683 collections including 829 occurrences