Personella

Personella
Shell of Personella lewisi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Personella Conrad, 1865
Species
Personella lewisi(Harasewych & Petuch, 1980) [1]
Synonyms
† Distorsio (Personella)Conrad, 1865 † Sassia lewisiHarasewych & Petuch, 1980

Personella is a genus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae. Its only species is Personella lewisi. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Guadeloupe.

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 27.9 mm. ^[3]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 80 m. ^[3] Maximum recorded depth is 140 m. ^[3]

References

1. Harasewych M. G. & Petuch E. J. (1980). "Sassia lewisi, a new cymatiid gastropod from the Caribbean Sea". The Nautilus 94(3): 121-122.
2. Personella (Harasewych & Petuch, 1980) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 December 2018.
3. Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0008776 .

External links

• 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