Personidae

Family of gastropods

Personidae
Apertural view of a shell of Distorsio ventricosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Personidae
J.E. Gray, 1854
Genera and species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Distorsioninae Beu, 1981
  • Personinae Gray, 1854 (original rank)

The Personidae are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

  • 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

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Personidae Gray, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23090 on 2021-12-30
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).

External links

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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.
Taxon identifiers
Personidae


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