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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae | Batissa

species Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818): specimens
     19 available nominal species synonyms (26 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Batissa violacea — WoRMS (2011), OBIS (2012), Sousa et al. (2014), Ng et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2023)

Range

Brackish, throughout tropical western Pacific, from Indochina and northern Australia to Fiji.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

Republic of Fiji