# Punctum (gastropod)

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.

## Distribution

This genus is found throughout the Holarctic ecozone, and also in South Africa and Mexico.

## Species

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
* 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
* 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
* † 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) – 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)
* 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)