Shell irregular, very compressed, foliaceous, sub-equivalve, rather variable form, gaping at the anterior part of the lower extremity; summit very small, hinge straight, vertical, without teeth; ligament multiple, and inserted in a series of longitudinal parallel furrows.
Perna ephippium.
P. obliqua.
P. isognomon.
P. avicularis.
P. femoralis.
P. canina.
P. marsupiom.
P. sulcata.
P. vulsella.