Waisiuconcha Beets, 1942

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Genus Waisiuconcha Beets, 1942

Type species: Waisiuconcha alberdinae Beets, 1942 , by original designation; Buton Island, Indonesia, late Miocene ( Janssen 1999).

Remarks.—According to Cosel and Salas (2001: 339) there are “two Recent species described from Japan: Waisiuconcha katsuae ( Kuroda 1952) , and W. surugensis Habe, 1976 ( Habe 1976a: fig. 81) (see also Higo et al. 1999); a third Japanese species cited by these authors in the genus Waisiuconcha , W. nakaii ( Okutani 1962) may be, according to the original drawing ( Okutani 1962: pl. 4: 1a), a species of Isorropodon ”. “ Waisiuconcha ” margotae Beets, 1953 from the late Miocene asphalt beds of Buton Island, Indonesia, looks quite like Vesicomya katsuae and might be the same as the Vesicomya from Liog-Liog. Vesicomya katsuae and Vesicomya nakaii were assigned to Waisiuconcha by Habe (1976a).