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. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a

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Species

Listed alphabetically:Jim P. Brock, Kenn Kaufman (2003) ''Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. * '' Boloria acrocnema'' Gall & Sperling, 1980 – Uncompahgre fritillary * ''

Boloria alaskensis ''Boloria alaskensis'', the mountain fritillary or Alaskan fritillary, is a species of fritillary butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Jacob Holland in 1900 and is found in North America and North European Russia. The ...

'' (Holland, 1900) – mountain fritillary (Arctic America, Alaska to Hudson Bay, Wyoming, Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula, Transbaikalia, Chukotka, Wrangel Island) * ''

Boloria aquilonaris ''Boloria aquilonaris'', the cranberry fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern and central Europe.Boloria alberta ''Boloria alberta'', the Alberta fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the North American Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and Alberta and in northern Montana. The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The butterfly fli ...

'' (W.H. Edwards, 1890) – Alberta fritillary * ''

Boloria angarensis ''Boloria angarensis '' is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, an ...

'' (Erschoff, 1870) (Transbaikalia, South Siberia, Far East Yakutia, Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula, Sayan, Tuva mountains, Amur, Ussuri, North Korea, Northeast China) * ''

Boloria astarte The Astarte fritillary (''Boloria astarte'') is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from northwestern North America to northeastern Siberia. It is found as far south as Montana and Washington. The wingspan is 42–51 mm. The ...

'' (Doubleday,

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– Astarte fritillary * ''

Boloria bellona ''Boloria bellona'', the meadow fritillary, is a North American butterfly in the brushfoot family, Nymphalidae. The common name, meadow fritillary, is also used for a European butterfly species, '' Melitaea parthenoides''. Description The up ...

'' (Fabricius, 1775) – meadow fritillary * ''

Boloria caucasica ''Boloria caucasica'' is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Caucasus , Transcaucasia, Turkey) that belongs to the browns family. See also *List of butterflies of Russia This is a list of butterflies of Russia. About 540 species are ...

'' (Lederer, 1852) (Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey) * '' Boloria chariclea'' (Schneider, 1794) – Arctic fritillary or purplish fritillary * ''

Boloria dia ''Boloria dia'', the Weaver's fritillary or violet fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. The name Weaver's fritillary is in honor of Richard Weaver (entomologist), Richard Weaver, an English insect collector who claimed to have o ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1767) – Weaver's fritillary or violet fritillary * ''

Boloria distincta ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabetic ...

'' (Gibson, 1920) (Yukon to British Columbia, Polar Urals, Transbaikalia, Yakutia, Chukotka) * ''

Boloria elatus ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabetic ...

'' (Staudinger, 1892) (Transbaikalia) * ''

Boloria epithore ''Boloria epithore'', the Pacific fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western North America from California to British Columbia and Alberta. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane ...

'' (Edwards,

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– Pacific fritillary * ''

Boloria erda ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabetic ...

'' (Christoph, 1893) (Yakutia, Sayan, Transbaikalia, Magadan) * ''

Boloria erubescens ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabetic ...

'' (Staudinger, 1901) (Tian-Shan, Ghissar-Darvaz, Pamirs-Alai) * ''

Boloria eunomia ''Boloria eunomia'', the bog fritillary or ocellate bog fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Description The length of the forewings is 20–24 mm. The wings are orange brown with dark markings. The color of the hindwings ...

'' (Esper,

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– bog fritillary, ocellate bog fritillary * ''

Boloria euphrosyne The pearl-bordered fritillary (''Boloria euphrosyne'') is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in Europe and through Russia across the Palearctic to the north of Kazakhstan. Description The adult butterfly is orange with black spots o ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – pearl-bordered fritillary * ''

Boloria freija ''Boloria freija'', the Freija fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae with a circumboreal distribution. It occurs in bogs and tundra. Its range includes Northern Europe to the north of 60° N, occasionally more southern location ...

'' (Thunberg, 1791) – Freya's fritillary, Freija fritillary or zigzag fritillary * ''

Boloria frigga ''Boloria frigga'', the Frigga fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae with a circumboreal distribution. It occurs in bogs and tundra in Northern Europe to the north of 60° N, very locally in more southern locations, as well as ...

'' (Thunberg, 1791) – Frigga fritillary, willow bog fritillary * ''

Boloria frigidalis ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabetic ...

'' Warren, 1944 (Altai, Sayan, Tuva mountains, Mongolia) * ''

Boloria improba ''Boloria improba'', the dingy fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. In Europe it is only found in small parts of Scandinavia, more specifically the border region between Norway, Sweden and Finland. The species is also present i ...

'' (Butler, 1877) – dingy fritillary * ''

Boloria iphigenia ''Boloria iphigenia '' is an east Palearctic butterfly in the family Nymphalidae (Heliconiinae The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). They can be d ...

'' (Graeser, 1888) (Japan, east Amur, Ussuri and northeast China) * ''

Boloria gong ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabetic ...

'' (Oberthür, 1884) (Tibet, West China, North China) * ''

Boloria graeca The Balkan fritillary (''Boloria graeca''), is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Alps and the Balkans. The larva feeds on ''Viola'' species. The orange upperside has a brown basal suffusion adorned with various marks of ...

'' (Staudinger, 1870) – Balkan fritillary * '' Boloria jerdoni'' (Lang, 1868) – Jerdon's silverspot * '' Boloria kriemhild'' (Butler, 1877) – relict fritillary (Montana, Wyoming) * ''

Boloria matveevi ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabeti ...

'' Gorbunov & Korshunov, 1995 (Altai) * ''

Boloria napaea ''Boloria napaea'', the Napaea fritillary or mountain fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Distribution In Europe the species is found in the Alps, mountainous areas in northern Scandinavia and very local in the eastern part ...

'' (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) – napaea fritillary or mountain fritillary * ''

Boloria natazhati ''Boloria natazhati'', the Beringian fritillary, cryptic fritillary or Pleistocene fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from northwestern Canada as far south as northern British Columbia. The wingspan is 32–44 ...

'' (Gibson, 1920) – cryptic fritillary or Beringian fritillary * '' Boloria neopales'' (Nakahara, 1926) (Sakhalin) * '' Boloria oscarus'' (Eversmann, 1844) (Siberia, Amur, Ussuri, Sakhalin, Yakutia) * ''

Boloria pales ''Boloria pales'', the shepherd's fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Brush-footed butterfly, Nymphalidae. It is found from the Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees through the Alps and Apennine Mountains east to the Balkan, Carpathian Moun ...

'' (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – Shepherd's fritillary * '' Boloria perryi'' (Butler, 1882) (southern Ussuri, North Korea, Amur) * ''

Boloria polaris ''Boloria polaris'', the Polaris fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northernmost Scandinavia, North America (in northeastern Alaska and northern Canada) and in Greenland. It is also found in northeastern Russia a ...

'' (Boisduval,

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– Polaris fritillary * ''

Boloria purpurea ''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. Species Listed alphabetic ...

'' Churkin, 1999 (Barguzin Mountains in Buryatia) * ''

Boloria selene ''Boloria selene'', known in Europe as the small pearl-bordered fritillary and in North America as the silver-bordered fritillary, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found across Europe, Asia and North America, and feeds ...

'' (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – small pearl-bordered fritillary or silver-bordered fritillary * ''

Boloria selenis ''Boloria selenis'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from the Volga basin to Japan. Description The wingspan is 35–48 mm. Seitz ''A. selenis'' Ev. (67g). Above deeper brown than the preceding 'hegemone'' ...

'' (Eversmann, 1837) * '' Boloria sipora'' (Moore,

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(Pamirs to Alai, Tian-Shan, West Himalaya) * '' Boloria thore'' (Hübner,

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– Thor's fritillary * '' Boloria titania'' (Esper, 1793) – Titania's fritillary or purple bog fritillary * ''

Boloria tritonia ''Boloria tritonia'' is a species of butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belongin ...

'' (Böber, 1812) (Baikal, Amur, Ussuri)

Brachiopod

Grunt described a

brachiopod Brachiopods (), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, w ...

genus in 1973 under the same name. Since each code of

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allows only for one genus with the same name, the brachiopod genus is in need of renaming.

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