WoRMS taxon details
Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 367822
AphiaID: 367822
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Perna (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Perna Philipsson, 1788 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mytilus opalus Lamarck, 1819 Mytilus smaragdinus Gmelin, 1791 Mytilus viridis Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] basis of record: 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] original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Jamaica [details] Kisite Marine National Park [details] Mombasa [details] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Anthessius mytilicolus Reddiah, 1966 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (32 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (356 nucleotides; 196 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367822 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367822 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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