Punctum (genus)
| Punctum | |
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| Punctum minutissimum | |
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| 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 | |
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Punctum pygmaeum |
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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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