African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Perna picta (Born, 1778)

AphiaID

216630 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216630)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Perna Philipsson, 1788

Original name

Mytilus pictus Born, 1778

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Mytilus pictus Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 111 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Perna picta (Born, 1778). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216630 on 2026-08-05

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Perna picta (Born, 1778). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216630 on 2026-08-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-09-01 11:31:06Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-10-07 23:42:53Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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original description (of Mytilus pictus Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 111 [details]

additional source Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420037449.ch8 [details] Available for editors

additional source Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. Mediterranean Marine Science. 6 (2): 63-118., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273213810_Annotated_list_of_marine_alien_species_in_the_Mediterranean_with_records_of_the_worst_invasive_species [details] Available for editors

status source Wood A.R., Apte S., MacAvoy E.S. & Gardner J.P.A. (2007) A molecular phylogeny of the marine mussel genus Perna (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) based on nuclear (ITS1&2) and mitochondrial (COI) DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44(2): 685-698. , available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790306005082 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perna picta)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 7 proteins)