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Bivalvia | Venerida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae | Batissa violacea

nominal species Cyrena violacea Lamarck, 1818

Cyrena violacea Lamarck, 1818 = Batissa violacea

Lamarck, 1806. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 421 [412]. [nomen nudum]
Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 553’ [2nd page 553].

Taxonomic Opinions

= Batissa violacea — Wu et al., 2023: Tables 1-2.

= Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) — Ng et al., 2016: 5.

= Batissa violacea — Sousa et al., 2014: [4], Table 1.

= Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) — OBIS, 2012: [web].

= Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) — WoRMS, 2011: [web].

= Batissa (s.s.) violacea Lamarck, 1818 — B.J. Smith, 1992: 11.

= Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1797) — Morton, 1989: 73, fig. 1.

= Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1806) — Morton, 1984: 77, pl. 1a.

= Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1797) — Hadl, 1976: 437, pl. 1, figs. 1-2.

= Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) — van Benthem Jutting, 1953: 54, fig. 13.

= Batissa violacea Deshayes — Prime, 1895: 17.

= Batissa violacea Lamarck — Fischer & Crosse, 1894: 630.

= Batissa violacea Lamarck — Clessin, 1879: 208, pl. 33, fig. 5.

= Batissa violacea Deshayes — Prime, 1870: 140.

= Batissa violacea Ads. — Prime, 1862: 115.

= Batissa violacea Lamk. — Deshayes, 1855: 238.

= Cyrena javanica Brug. — Mousson, 1849: 88.

= Cyrena violacea Lam. — Hanley, 1843: 92, pl. 13, fig. 13.

= Cyrena violacea Lamk. — Deshayes, 1830: 49.

= Cyrena violacea — Lamarck, 1818: 553’.