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Bassina
	Bassina yatei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Veneroida
Superfamily:	Veneroidea
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Bassina; Jukes-Brown, 1914
Species
	See text.

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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 are found in southern and eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.

Species

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

References

NZ Mollusca

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-'''''Bassina''''' is a [[genus]] of [[bivalve]] [[mollusc]]s 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 are found in southern and eastern [[Australia]], [[Tasmania]] and [[New Zealand]].
+'''''Bassina''''' is a [[genus]] of [[bivalve]] [[mollusc]]s in the family [[Veneridae]].  Shells are rather large, ovate, of only moderate convexity, [[sculpture (mollusc)|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 are found in southern and eastern [[Australia]], [[Tasmania]] and [[New Zealand]].
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+[[Category:Bivalves of Australia]]
+[[Category:Molluscs of New Zealand]]