Personidae

Personidae
Apertural view of a shell of Distorsio ventricosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Personidae J.E. Gray, 1854
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Distorsioninae Beu, 1981 Personinae Gray, 1854 (original rank)

The Personidae are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.

Genera

• Distorsio Röding, 1798
• † Kotakaia Beu, 1988
• Personopsis Beu, 1988

Synonyms

• Calcarella Souleyet, 1850: synonym of Distorsio Röding, 1798
• Distorta Perry, 1811: synonym of Distorsio Röding, 1798
• Distortrix Link, 1807: synonym of Distorsio Röding, 1798 (objective synonym of Distorsio)
• Persona Montfort, 1810: synonym of Distorsio Röding, 1798 (objective synonym of Distoriso)

References

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• The Taxonomicon
• Gray, J. E. (1854). On the division of ctenobranchous gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1853) 21: 32-44
• Strong E.E., Puillandre N., Beu A.G., Castelin M. & Bouchet P. (2019). Frogs and tuns and tritons – A molecular phylogeny and revised family classification of the predatory gastropod superfamily Tonnoidea (Caenogastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 18-34
• Beu, A. G. (1988). Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Part 5. Early history of the families, with four new genera and recognition of the family Personidae. Saito Ho-on Kai Special Publication. (Prof. T. Kotaka Commemorative volume): 69-96
• Beu A.G. (1998). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM: 19. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), a monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 178: 1-255.

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