OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
Data as of: 2006-05-17
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Bivalvia Mytiloida Mytilidae
Perna planorbis Dufo, 1840
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Perna planorbis Dufo, 1840
Distribution
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa: Seychelles
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa: Seychelles: Outer Islands: Amirantes
Keywords
depth: intertidal [ 2m
]
habit: byssally attached [ in association with Perna rupella
]
substrate: rocks [
]
References
Dufo 1840. p.212 [ anatomical description; ecology; distrbution
] Secondary source
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Loboconcha
Bivalvia
Pteriomorphia
Mytiloida
Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815
Perna Retzius, 1788
Perna planorbis Dufo, 1840
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=61299) created by Peter Ulrik Middelfart on 2002-01-01. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-06-05.