Punctum minutissimum

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Punctum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. blandianum (Brown Spot) · P. californicum (Ribbed Spot) · P. hannai (Trinity Spot) · P. minutissimum (Small Spot) · P. randolphi (Conical Spot) · P. smithi (Lamellate Spot) · P. vitreum (Glass Spot)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the shell bearing mollusca of Rhode Island / by Horace F. Carpenter. Central Falls, R. I.: Printed by E. L. Freeman, [1873] url .
• Agriculture of Maine: . .. annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Augusta: [State of Maine, Dept. of Agriculture, 1903-1940.] url p. 260.
• Alaska / Harriman Alaska Expedition. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901-1910. url p. 53.
• Alaska. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1901- url p. 53.
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 383.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 18, p. 18, p. 195, p. 197, p. 200, p. 204, p. 205, p. 22, p. 22, p. 27, p. 27, p. 438.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 26.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. 74 1978 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 191, p. 200, p. 204, p. 207, p. 210, p. 240, expl. of plate 17, page 272.
• Check list of the Mollusca of New York / Elizabeth J. Letson. Albany: New York State Education Dept., 1905. url p. 32.
• Conchologia cestrica. The molluscous animals and their shells, of Chester county, Pa. By William D. Hartman, M.D. and Ezra Michener, M.D. With numerous illustrations. .. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1874. url p. 48.
• Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Alan Solem. Chicago: Field museum of Natural History, 1982. url p. 56.
• Fauna of New England: 13. List of the mollusca / by Charles W. Johnson. Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1915. url p. 208.
• Harriman Alaska series. City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910-1914. url p. 53.
• Harriman Alaska series. vol. I-V, VIII-XIV Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1910-14 url p. 53.
• Journal of conchology. London: D. Bogue. url p. 372.
• Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History. Portland: The Society, 1864. url p. 25, p. 27, p. 28, p. 39, p. 51, p. 63.
• Land and fresh water mollusks / by William H. Dall. New York: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1905. url p. 53.
• Land and fresh water shells of Onondaga County: with a supplemental list of New York Species / prepared by W. M. Beauchamp. Baldwinsville, N.Y.: Gazette and Farmers Journal, 1886. url p. 8.
• Land snails from the Canadian Rockies, by S. Stillman Berry. Ottawa: Government printing bureau, 1922. url p. 15.
• Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1885-1935. url p. 6, p. 6, p. 6.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1959 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 128, fig. 55, page 136, p. 137, p. 6.
• Molluscan world, San Diego, Calif., 1915. url , p. 84.
• Monograph of the land & freshwater Mollusca of the British isles. By John W. Taylor. .. with the assistance of W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., the late Charles Ashford, and other well-known conchologists. .. Leeds, Taylor brothers, 1894-19 url p. 160.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. Northampton? Mass., 1950 url p. 140.
• New York State Museum bulletin. 1905 Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1916-1944. url p. 32.
• Notes on American land shells, and other miscellaneous conchological contributions / by W.G. Binney. Burlington, N.J.: Printed for the author, 1874-[1879]. url p. 307.
• Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869-1941. url p. 208.
• On the jaw and lingual membrane of North American terrestrial pulmonata / by W.G. Binney. Burlington, N.J.: Printed for the author, [1875] url p. 155.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 155, p. 155.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 567.
• Shells of Maine. A catalogue of the land, fresh-water and marine Mollusca of Maine, by Norman Wallace Lermond. Thomaston, Me., pref. 1908 url p. 44, p. 44.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 8 1869 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url figs. 376-378 , p. 222, p. xi.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 511, p. 77.
• The Mollusca of Dorsetshire: (marine, estuarine, freshwater, and land) and the Brachiopoda / By John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell. Dorchester: "Dorset county chronicle" printing works, 1898. url .
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 104, p. 11, p. 125, p. 130, p. 133, p. 14, p. 151, p. 152, p. 16, p. 25, p. 27, p. 27, p. 36, p. 52, p. 57, p. 59, p. 61, p. 62, p. 63, p. 64, p. 65, p. 7, p. 70, p. 84, p. 84, p. 89, p. 92, p. 96, p. 97.
• The Ottawa naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 36, p. 36.
• The distributions of the native land mollusks of the Eastern United States / Leslie Hubricht. 24 1985 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1985. url p. 185, p. 22, p. v.
• The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America: described and illustrated by Amos Binney. Ed. by Augustus A. Gould. .. Boston, C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1851-78. url p. 22, p. 27, p. 412.
• Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. [Lexington, Ky.]Kentucky Academy of Science, 1923-1997. url p. 108, p. 163.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2688283
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16085552
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 77341
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 649436

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