# Personidae

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{{Short description|Family of gastropods}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Distorsioventricosa.jpg
| image_caption = Apertural view of a [shell](/source/gastropod) of ''[Distorsio ventricosa](/source/Distorsio_ventricosa)''
| taxon = Personidae
| authority = [J.E. Gray](/source/J.E._Gray), 1854
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" />
| synonyms = 
* Distorsioninae <small>Beu, 1981</small>
* Personinae <small>Gray, 1854</small> (original rank)
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
}}

The '''Personidae''' are a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusc](/source/mollusc)s in the order [Littorinimorpha](/source/Littorinimorpha).<ref name="WoRMS">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</ref>
<ref>{{cite journal
 |author1=Bouchet, P.  |author2=Rocroi, J.-P.
  |name-list-style=amp | year = 2005
 | title = Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families
 | journal = Malacologia
 | volume =47
 | issue = 1–2
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== Genera ==
* ''[Distorsio](/source/Distorsio)'' <small>Röding, 1798</small>
* † ''[Kotakaia](/source/Kotakaia)'' <small>Beu, 1988</small> 
* ''[Personopsis](/source/Personopsis)'' <small>Beu, 1988</small>
;Synonyms:
* ''Calcarella'' <small>Souleyet, 1850</small>: synonym of ''Distorsio'' <small>Röding, 1798</small>
* ''Distorta'' <small>Perry, 1811</small>: synonym of ''Distorsio'' <small>Röding, 1798</small>
* ''Distortrix'' <small>Link, 1807</small>: synonym of ''Distorsio'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> (objective synonym of Distorsio)
* ''Persona'' <small>Montfort, 1810</small>: synonym of ''Distorsio'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> (objective synonym of Distoriso)

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Personidae}}
* [http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ The Taxonomicon]
* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747153 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]
* [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.016  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]
* [https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/33176/33176.pdf 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]
* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58988686 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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Category:Personidae
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Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray

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