Punctum is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Punctinae of the family Punctidae, the dot snails.[2]
| Punctum | |
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| Punctum minutissimum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Punctidae |
| Genus: | Punctum Morse, 1864[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix minutissima I. Lea, 1841
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Distribution edit
This genus is found throughout the Holarctic ecozone, and also in South Africa and Mexico.[3]
Species edit
The genus Punctum includes the following species:
The type species is Helix minutissima Lea, 1841
- Punctum abbadianum (Bourguignat, 1883)
- Punctum adami Bruggen & Goethem, 2001
- † Punctum alveus Pierce, 1992
- Punctum amblygonum (Reinhardt, 1877)
- Punctum apertum Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904
- Punctum atomus Pilsbry & Hirase, 1904
- Punctum azoricum De Winter, 1988[4]
- Punctum blandianum Pilsbry, 1900
- Punctum boreale Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1905
- Punctum bristoli (Gulick,1904)
- Punctum brucei (Jickeli, 1874)
- Punctum californicum Pilsbry, 1898
- Punctum camerunense de Winter, 2017
- Punctum depressum Odhner, 1922
- Punctum elachistum Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904
- Punctum hainanensis (Möllendorff, 1887)
- Punctum hannai B. Roth, 1985
- Punctum horneri Ancey, 1904
- Punctum infans Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904
- Punctum japonicum Pilsbry, 1900
- Punctum kilimanjaricum Verdcourt, 1978
- Punctum lepta (Westerlund, 1883)
- Punctum lozeki Horsák & Meng, 2018
- Punctum micropleuros (Paget, 1854)
- Punctum minutissimum I. Lea, 1841 - but Helix minutissima may be considered as a synonym of Punctum pygmaeum[5]
- Punctum mokotoense Abdou & Bouchet, 2000
- Punctum morseanum Pilsbry, 1902
- Punctum nimbaense de Winter, 2017
- † Punctum oligocaenicum Zinndorf, 1901
- Punctum orphana (Heude, 1882)
- Punctum pallidum Connolly, 1922[6]
- † Punctum parvulum Gottschick, 1920
- † Punctum parvulum A. B. Leonard, 1972 (unreplaced junior homonym; junior homonym of † Punctum parvulum Gottschick, 1920; no replacement name is available))
- † Punctum patagonicum Miquel & P. E. Rodriguez, 2016
- Punctum petiti Fischer-Piette & Vukadinovic, 1971
- Punctum polynesicum Solem, 1983
- † Punctum propygmaeum Andreae, 1904
- † Punctum pumilio Jooss, 1918
- Punctum pygmaeum (Draparnaud, 1801)[7][4] - type species
- Punctum randolphi Dall, 1895
- Punctum rota Pilsbry & Hirase, 1904
- Punctum seychellarum Gerlach, 1998
- Punctum smithi Morrison, 1935
- Punctum taiwanicum Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905
- Punctum ugandanum (E. A. Smith, 1903)[6]
- Punctum ussuriense Likharev & Rammelmeyer, 1952
- Punctum vitreum H. B. Baker, 1930
- Synonyms
- Punctum (Toltecia) Pilsbry, 1926: synonym of Paralaoma Iredale, 1913
- Punctum abyssinicum (Jickeli, 1874): synonym of Trachycystis abyssinica (Jickeli, 1874)
- Punctum clappi Pilsbry, 1898: synonym of Planogyra clappi (Pilsbry, 1898) (original combination)
- Punctum conicum Odhner, 1922: synonym of Sinployea conica (Odhner, 1922) (original combination)
- Punctum conspectum (Bland, 1865): synonym of Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852) (junior synonym)
- Punctum cryophilum (E. von Martens, 1865): synonym of Toltecia pusilla (Lowe, 1831): synonym of Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852)
- Punctum homalospira (Morelet, 1883): synonym of Psichion homalospira (Morelet, 1883) (superseded combination)
- Punctum hottentotum (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1891): synonym of Paralaoma hottentota (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1891) (superseded combination)
- Punctum lederi (O. Boettger, 1880): synonym of Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852) (invalid combination)
- † Punctum victoris (Michaud, 1862): synonym of † Lucilla victoris (Michaud, 1862)
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Punctum Morse, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=866756 on 2022-03-03
- ^ Pilsbry H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs, 3, vol. 2 part 2: 521-1113.
- ^ a b "Species in genus Punctum" Archived 2019-09-17 at the Wayback Machine (n=2). AnimalBase, accessed 5 July 2011.
- ^ "Synonyms of Helix pygmaea. accessed 5 July 2011.
- ^ a b Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87-100. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp048.
- ^ 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).
- Fujie, A. (2000). Holocene Fossil Assemblages of Minute Land Molluscs from Sand Dunes on Kikaijima lsland in the Amami Archipelago, Japan. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 59 (4): 317-324
External links edit
- AnimalBase info
- Morse, E. S. (1864). Observations on the terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine, including a catalogue of all the species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca known to inhabit the state. Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History. 1(1): 1-63, pls 1-10
- Pfeiffer, L. (1878-1881). Nomenclator heliceorum viventium. [Posthumous work edited by S. Clessin]. Fischer: Cassel. 617 pp. See Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 for section dates. pp. 1–64, 1878; 65–192, 1879; 193–400, 1879–80; 401–546, 1881; 547–617, 1881