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.