Punctum | |
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Punctum minutissimum | |
Apical view of a shell of Punctum pygmaeum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
Family: | Punctidae |
Genus: |
Punctum Morse, 1864 |
Type genus | |
Punctum pygmaeum |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Punctum is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Punctidae, the dot snails.
The genus Punctum includes the following species:
The type species is Helix minutissima Lea, 1841.
This genus is found throughout the Holarctic ecozone, and also in South Africa and Mexico.