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

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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae

genus Batissa Gray, 1853: synonymy
     3 Recent valid species (3 total species)

Batissa Gray, 1853
Gray, 1853. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11: 38.
Type species: Cyrena tenebrosa Hinds, 1842 (sub. desig. by Stoliczka, 1871) = Batissa violacea

Bautisa Paetel, 1875
Paetel, 1875. Fam. Gatt. Moll.: 22.
(error for Batissa Gray, 1853)

Batista Dollfus, 1915
Dollfus, 1915. Paléont. Voy. Célèbes Abendanon: 13.
(error for Batissa Gray, 1853)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

BatissaSchepman (1919), Thiele (1934), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Hadl (1976), ... OBIS (2012), IUCN (2012), Sousa et al. (2014), Ng et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2023)
Batissa (s.s.)B.J. Smith (1992)

 
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