Species Batissa (Batissa) violacea (Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyrena violacea Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [553].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ?GMNH, locality unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van 1953. Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australia Archipelago. IV. Critical revision of the freshwater bivalves of Java. Treubia 22: 19-73 [54].

 

Generic Combinations

• Batissa (Batissa) violacea (Lamarck, 1818). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [182]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lamprell & Healy (1998) report the distribution as occurring in coastal rivers, streams and estuaries of QLD and NT; an Australian Museum specimen extends the range into northern NSW (C.60603).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Coastal rivers and streams.

 

General References

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [182]

Morton, B. 1989. The functional morphology of the organs of the mantle cavity of Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1797) (Bivalvia: Corbiculacea). American Malacological Bulletin 7(1): 73-79

Rosenberg, G. 2011. Batissa violacea. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574116 (Accessed on 2015-04-24)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		18-Dec-2013	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	SPHAERIOIDEA	17-Dec-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)