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Macrocallista

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Taxonomy

Macrocallista was named by Meek (1876) [Sepkoski's age data: T Than R Sepkoski's reference number: 705]. It is extant. Its type is Venus nimbosa.

It was reranked as Callista (Macrocallista) by Woods (1922), Moore (1976), Squires (1987).

It was assigned to Meretricinae by Glenn (1904), Gardner (1943); to Venerinae by Iqbal (1973); to Callista by Woods (1922), Moore (1976), Squires (1987); to Pitarinae by Adegoke (1977), Woodring (1982), Ward (1992); to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Veneridae by Nagao (1928), Nagao (1928), Mukerjee (1939), Durham (1944), Rivera (1957), Ward and Blackwelder (1987), Todd (2001), Morales-Ortega et al. (2016).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1876	Macrocallista Meek p. 179
1904	Macrocallista Glenn p. 311
1922	Callista (Macrocallista) Woods p. 71
1928	Macrocallista Nagao p. 66
1939	Macrocallista Mukerjee p. 20
1943	Macrocallista Gardner p. 122
1944	Macrocallista Durham p. 146
1957	Macrocallista Rivera p. 195
1973	Macrocallista Iqbal p. 19
1976	Callista (Macrocallista) Moore p. 48
1977	Macrocallista Adegoke p. 281
1982	Macrocallista Woodring p. 689
1987	Callista (Macrocallista) Squires p. 70
1987	Macrocallista Ward and Blackwelder p. 130
1992	Macrocallista Ward p. 100
2001	Macrocallista Todd
2002	Macrocallista Sepkoski
2016	Macrocallista Morales-Ortega et al. p. 15

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
—	Veneroidei	(Gray 1854)
—	Veneroitei	Gray 1854
superfamily	Veneroidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Veneridae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Macrocallista	Meek 1876

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Macrocallista Meek 1876

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†Callista (Macrocallista) dickersoni Woods 1922

†Callista (Macrocallista) domenginica Vokes 1939

†Macrocallista (Costacallista) domenginica capayana Vokes 1939

Subg. Macrocallista (Macrocallista) Meek 1876

†Macrocallista (Macrocallista) acuminata Dall 1903

Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa Solander 1786

†Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta Conrad 1834

Subg. Macrocallista (Megapitaria) Grant and Gale 1931

Macrocallista (Megapitaria) albaria Say 1830

Megapitaria aurantiaca Sowerby 1831