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Perna Philipsson, 1788 
AphiaID: 138229

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815
Synonymised
taxa		  Chloromya Mörch, 1853 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Siddall S.E. 1980. A clarification of the genus Perna. Bulletin of Marine Science 30: 858-870., available online at http://siddall.info/pdfdocs/perna.pdf [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Perna canalicula (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species Perna africana (Chemnitz, 1785) accepted as Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Perna confusa Angas, 1871 accepted as Limnoperna securis (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Perna fulgida H. Adams, 1870 accepted as Lioberus ligneus (Reeve, 1858)
Species Perna indica Kuriakose & Nair, 1976 accepted as Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Perna magellanica Philipsson, 1788 accepted as Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Perna picta (Born, 1778) accepted as Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Perna plumescens Dunker, 1868 accepted as Modiolus plumescens (Dunker, 1868)
Species Perna ungulina Philipsson, 1788 accepted as Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
Species Perna variabilis (Krauss, 1848) accepted as Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870)
Environment marine
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138229
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Perna Philipsson, 1788. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138229 on 2013-06-19
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