Assiminea punctum

Assiminea punctum
Shell of Assiminea punctum (syntype at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Assiminea
Species:	A. punctum
Binomial name
Assiminea punctum Morelet, 1882

Assiminea punctum is a species of minute, salt-tolerant snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs, or micromolluscs, in the family Assimineidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of this species attains 3 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is very minute and scarcely rimose (having a very slight chink). It is ovate-conoidal, very smooth, shining, and horn-green.

The spire is elongated, with a somewhat acute apex. It has five convex whorls, which are joined by a black-margined suture. The body whorl is inflated and does not equal half the length of the shell.

The aperture is acutely oval, with straight margins, and it is brown-edged internally. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs on Mayotte, Indian Ocean.

References

1. Assiminea punctum Morelet, 1882 . 32 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Morelet, A. (1882). "Malacologie des Comores. Récolte de M. Marie, à l'ile Mayotte. (2e Article)". Journal de Conchyliologie. 30: 199. Retrieved 2 December 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Fischer-Piette, E., Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, F. (1993). Gastéropodes terrestres prosobranches. Faune de Madagascar, 80: 1-281.
• Breure, A.S.H., Audibert, C. & Ablett, J.D. (2018). Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809-1892) and his contributions to malacology. Leiden: Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging. 544 pp.
• Fischer-Piette, E. & Vukadinovic, D. (1974). Les Mollusques terrestres des Iles Comores. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Série, Série A, Zoologie, 84: 1-76, 1 plate. Paris.