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Punctum (genus)

Punctum
Punctum minutissimum.png
Punctum minutissimum
Punctum pygmaeum shell.jpg
Apical view of a shell of Punctum pygmaeum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

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.



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