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 Photo of a shell of Punctum pygmaeum
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Punctum is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Punctidae, the dot snails.
Species
The genus Punctum includes the following species:
- Punctum azoricum De Winter, 1988 [1]
- Punctum californicum Pilsbry, 1898
- Punctum pygmaeum (Draparnaud, 1801)[2] - type species, synonym: Punctum minutissimum (I. Lea, 1841)
References
- ^ Morse E. S. 1864. Observations on the terrestrial Pulmonifera, including a catalogue of all species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca known to inhabit the state. Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History 1 (1): 1-63, Pl. I-II [= 1-2 ], 3-10.
- ^ Draparnaud J. P. R. 1801. Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson).
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