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WRiMS taxon details

Perna Philipsson, 1788

AphiaID

138229 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138229)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Crenellinae J. E. Gray, 1840

Original name

Perna Philipsson, 1788

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Species Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Perna confusa Angas, 1871 accepted as Xenostrobus securis (Lamarck, 1819) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Perna picta (Born, 1778) accepted as Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Retzius A.J. (1788). Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. 4+23 pp. Lund. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN581964985, http://LOG_0001&physid=PHYS_0004
page(s): 20 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Perna Philipsson, 1788. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138229 on 2026-06-15

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Perna Philipsson, 1788. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138229 on 2026-06-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-11-22 13:04:29Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-03-23 21:34:07Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2023-11-26 19:06:57Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2024-10-21 15:14:27Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Retzius A.J. (1788). Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. 4+23 pp. Lund. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN581964985, http://LOG_0001&physid=PHYS_0004
page(s): 20 [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]

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]