Family Unionidae Rafinesque 1820 (freshwater mussel)
Parent taxon: Unionoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Actinodontophoridae, Margaritiferidae, Mutelidae, Sancticarolitidae
Subtaxa: Acuticosta, Alasmidonta, Alasmidontinae, Ambleminae, Anodonta, Cuneopsis, Elongaria, Gonideinae, Lamprotula, Modellnaiinae, Paranodonta, Parreysiinae, Plicatounio, Potomida, Pseudodon, Qiyangiinae, Rectidentinae, Rhabdotophorus, Shistodesmus, Unioninae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder