Bassina

Taxobox
name = "Bassina"


image_caption = "Bassina yatei"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
subclassis = Heterodonta
ordo = Veneroida
superfamilia = Veneroidea
familia = Veneridae
genus = "Bassina"
genus_authority = Jukes-Brown, 1914
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Bassina" is a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae. Shells are rather large, ovate, of only moderate convexity, sculptured with concentric lamellae, which vary from simple and low, to long and frilled. A feature of the hinge is the unequally divided left median cardinal.

Species in this genus are found in southern and eastern Australia including Tasmania, and New Zealand.

pecies

* "Bassina disjecta"
* "Bassina foliacea" (Philippi, 1846)
* "Bassina jacksoni" (Smith, 1885)
* "Bassina pachyphylla"
* "Bassina yatei" (Gray,1835)

References

* [http://www.mollusca.co.nz/checklist/checklist_frameset.htm?list=list036& NZ Mollusca]