Punctidae
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| A live individual of Punctum minutissimum | |
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| Apical view of a shell of Punctum pygmaeum | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Punctidae Morse, 1864
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Punctidae, common name the "dot snails", is a family of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
The family Punctidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Punctidae includes the following genera:
- Punctum
- Paralaoma
- Phrixgnathus Hutton, 1882
- and others
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