title: Perna (bivalve)
text: # Perna (bivalve)
  
  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. Adams, 1870: synonym of Lioberus ligneus (Reeve, 1858)
  * Perna indica Kuriakose & Nair, 1976: synonym of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
  * Perna magellanica Philipsson, 1788: synonym of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
  * Perna picta (Born, 1778): synonym of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)
  * Perna plumescens Dunker, 1868: synonym of Modiolus plumescens (Dunker, 1868)
  * Perna ungulina Philipsson, 1788: synonym of Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
  * Perna variabilis (Krauss, 1848): synonym of Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870)
  