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Perna canaliculus, [a] the New Zealand green-lipped mussel, also known as the New Zealand mussel, the greenshell mussel, kuku, and kutai, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae (the true mussels). P. canaliculus has economic importance as a cultivated species in New Zealand.
The New Zealand pea crab (Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae), is a species of small, parasitic crab that lives most commonly inside New Zealand green-lipped mussels. [1] Adult females are about the size and shape of a pea, while adult males are smaller and flatter. [2]
Longline culture (rope culture): Mussels are cultivated extensively in New Zealand, where the most common method is to attach mussels to ropes which are hung from a rope back-bone supported by large plastic floats. The most common species cultivated in New Zealand is the New Zealand green-lipped mussel.
Havelock serves as the centre for much of the New Zealand green-lipped mussel industry, and promotes itself as the greenshell mussel capital of the world. [5] [6] It also functions as the base for a mail boat servicing the remote communities in the Marlborough Sounds, as well as for many fishing and recreational boats.
A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft mollusks and Polyzoa of New Zealand and the adjacent islands. Henry Suter. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca Wellington. Powell A. W. B. 1979. New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
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 ...
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