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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)
Synonyms
† Distorsio (Personella) Conrad, 1865 † Sassia lewisi Harasewych & Petuch, 1980

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

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Guadeloupe.

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 27.9 mm.

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 80 m. Maximum recorded depth is 140 m.

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

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• Monotypic gastropod genera
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