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Pharaoh Mussel

Brachidontes pharaonis

Classification

Family
Mytilidae

Perna is a genus of mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Not to be confused with Perna Bruguière, 1789 , synonym of Isognomon Lightfoot, 1786 Species Species within the genus Perna include: 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.…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 25Italy · 1