Marine Species Traits - Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818)

WoRMS taxon details

Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818)

AphiaID

574116 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:574116)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Batissa J. E. Gray, 1853

Original name

Cyrena violacea Lamarck, 1818

Synonymised names

Batissa elegans Prime, 1862 · unaccepted

Batissa keraudrenia (R. P. Lesson, 1831) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Batissa sphaericula Prime, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Batissa violacea var. celebensis E. von Martens, 1897 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Batissa violacea var. discoidea E. von Martens, 1897 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Batissa violacea var. extensa E. von Martens, 1897 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Batissa violacea var. macassarica E. von Martens, 1897 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Batissa violacea var. suborbicularis Deshayes, 1855 · unaccepted

Cyclas islandica Bruguière, 1797 · unaccepted

Cyrena (Cyprina) keraudrenia R. P. Lesson, 1831 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cyrena jayensis I. Lea, 1834 · unaccepted

Cyrena keraudrenia R. P. Lesson, 1831 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cyrena violacea Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted (original combination)

Cyrena violacea var. javanica Mousson, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (original name)

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Forma Batissa violacea f. paucicostulata Oostingh, 1931 accepted as Batissa paucicostulata Oostingh, 1931 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Variety Batissa violacea var. celebensis E. von Martens, 1897 accepted as Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) (junior synonym)
Variety Batissa violacea var. discoidea E. von Martens, 1897 accepted as Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) (junior synonym)
Variety Batissa violacea var. extensa E. von Martens, 1897 accepted as Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) (junior synonym)
Variety Batissa violacea var. macassarica E. von Martens, 1897 accepted as Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818) (junior synonym)
Variety Batissa violacea var. suborbicularis Deshayes, 1855 accepted as Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818)

Environment

~~marine~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Cyrena violacea Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 553 [details]

Type data

Lectotype (of Batissa violacea var. celebensis E. von...

Lectotype (of Batissa violacea var. celebensis E. von Martens, 1897) MNB ZMB 111.986 [details]

Lectotype (of Batissa violacea var. macassarica E. von Martens, 1897) MNB ZMB 108.824a [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Tropical northern Australia. Also in Andaman Islands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guineas...

Distribution Tropical northern Australia. Also in Andaman Islands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guineas and some SW Pacific Islands (eg. Fiji, New Caledonia) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Batissa violacea (Lamarck, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574116 on 2025-05-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-06-14 19:18:24Z

created

Rosenberg, Gary

2019-07-08 15:00:00Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2019-11-23 07:56:31Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cyclas islandica Bruguière, 1797) Bruguière J.G. (1791-1797). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Part 7 [Livraison 46, 30 July 1791]: Tome 1, pp. [i]-viii, 1-83, pl. 1-95, Paris: Panckoucke. Part 10 [Livraison 49, May 1792]: Tome 1, pp. 85-132; Tome 2, pl. 96-189, Paris: Panckoucke. Part 19 [Livraison 62, 8 July 1797], pl. 190-286, Paris: H. Agasse. [dates and publishers after Evenhuis & Petit 2003]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64072
page(s): 156 [details]

original description (of Batissa violacea var. celebensis E. von Martens, 1897) Martens, E. von. (1897). Süss- und Brackwasser-Mollusken des Indischen Archipels. Zoologische Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien 4: 1-331, pls 1-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36298713
page(s): 104 [details]

original description (of Batissa violacea var. discoidea E. von Martens, 1897) Martens, E. von. (1897). Süss- und Brackwasser-Mollusken des Indischen Archipels. Zoologische Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien 4: 1-331, pls 1-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36298713
page(s): 106 [details]

original description (of Batissa violacea var. extensa E. von Martens, 1897) Martens, E. von. (1897). Süss- und Brackwasser-Mollusken des Indischen Archipels. Zoologische Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien 4: 1-331, pls 1-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36298713
page(s): 106 [details]

original description (of Batissa violacea var. macassarica E. von Martens, 1897) Martens, E. von. (1897). Süss- und Brackwasser-Mollusken des Indischen Archipels. Zoologische Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien 4: 1-331, pls 1-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36298713
page(s): 105 [details]

original description (of Batissa sphaericula Prime, 1862) Prime, T. (1862). Descriptions of three new species of shells belonging to the family of cyclades. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1862: 2–3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28626934
page(s): 2-3 [details]

original description (of Cyrena violacea Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 553 [details]

original description (of Cyrena violacea var. javanica Mousson, 1849) Mousson, A. (1849). Die Land- und Süsswasser- Mollusken von Java. Zurich: Friedrich Schulthess. iv + 126 pp., 22 pls., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14301934
page(s): 86–87, pl. 15 fig. 2 [details]

original description (of Batissa violacea var. suborbicularis Deshayes, 1855) Deshayes, G. P. (1853-1855). Catalogue of the Conchifera or bivalve shells in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, Part I. Cyprinidae, Veneridae and Glauconomidae, pp. ii + 216 pp. [introduction by J. E. Gray] [27 June 1853]; Part II, Petricoladae (concluded), Corbiculadae, pp. 217-292 [title page dated "1854"; 12 May 1855]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60978
page(s): 238 [details]

original description (of Batissa elegans Prime, 1862) Prime T. (1862). Description d'espèce nouvelles des genres Glauconome, Cyrena, Batissa et Corbicula. Journal de Conchyliologie. 10: 383-390., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15135098
page(s): 385, pl. 13, fig. 1 [details]

original description (of Cyrena (Cyprina) keraudrenia R. P. Lesson, 1831) Lesson, R. P. (1830-1831). Chapitre XI. Mollusques, Annélides et Vers; par R.-P. Lesson. pp. 239-456 [15 Nov 1831], plates 1-16 [Mollusques 1-3, 09 Jan 1830; Mollusques 4-6, 01 May 1830; Mollusques 7, 26 May 1830; Mollusques 8-9, 25 Nov 1830; Mollusques 12, 07 Mar 1831; Mollusques 10, 25 Jul 1831; Mollusques 11, 13 Oct 1831; Mollusques 14, 16, 15 Nov 1831; Mollusques 13, 15, 22 Dec 1831]. In: Lesson R.P. 1830-1831. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, par M. Lesson. Tome Second. 1re Partie. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Editeur, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot. link to<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729" target="_blank">Text</a> link to <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38768370" target="_blank">Plates</a>. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729
page(s): pl. 11 fig. 3 [13 Oct 1831]; 429-430 [15 Nov 1831] [details]

basis of record Ponder, W. F.; Hallan, A.; Shea, M.; Clark, S. A. (2016). Australian Freshwater Molluscs. http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/. , available online at http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/ [details]

Other

additional source Graf, D.; Cummings, K. (2019). Musselp database: The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). , available online at http://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/ [details]