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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!

For each valid genus, the nominal generic synonyms are listed. The taxonomic history (since 1900) at the bottom of the page lists the genera to which all of the currently included species have been classified.

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genus Batissa Gray, 1853: nominal genera
     4 valid 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), ..., OBIS (2012), IUCN (2012), Sousa et al. (2014), Ng et al. (2016)
Subba Rao (1989), B.J. Smith (1992)
Batissa (s.s.)B.J. Smith (1992)

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