Perna (bivalve)

Perna is a genus of mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.^[1]

Perna
Perna canaliculus, the New Zealand mussel
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Mytilida
Family:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Perna
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Chloromya Mörch, 1853

Not to be confused with Perna Bruguière, 1789 , synonym of Isognomon Lightfoot, 1786

Species

Species within the genus Perna include:^[1]

Perna perna

• Perna canaliculus (Gmelin, 1791) New Zealand green-lipped mussel
• Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
• † Perna tetleyi (Powell & Bartrum, 1929)
• Perna viridis: Asian green mussel (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Perna africana (Chemnitz, 1785): synonym of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Perna confusa Angas, 1871: synonym of Limnoperna securis (Lamarck, 1819)
• Perna fulgida H. Adams, 1870: synonym of Lioberus ligneus (Reeve, 1858)
• Perna indica Kuriakose & Nair, 1976: synonym of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Perna magellanica Philipsson, 1788: synonym of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Perna picta (Born, 1778): synonym of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[2]
• Perna plumescens Dunker, 1868: synonym of Modiolus plumescens (Dunker, 1868)
• Perna ungulina Philipsson, 1788: synonym of Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
• Perna variabilis (Krauss, 1848): synonym of Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870)