Belongs within: Fissurellidae.
Puncturella is a genus of keyhole limpets with the shell perforated anterior to the apex (Knight et al. 1960).
Characters (from Knight et al. 1960): Conical, with perforation on anterior slope or near apex entering conduit or curved shelly plate within; internal groove and selenizone weak or absent.
<==Puncturella Lowe 1827P61 (see below for synonymy)
|--P. (Puncturella)W93
| |--*P. (P.) noachina (Linné 1758)KC60 (see below for synonymy)
| |--P. (P.) galerita Hedley 1903W93 [=Vacerra galeritaC45]
| |--P. (P.) harrisoni Beddome 1822W93 [=Vacerra harrisoniC45]
| |--P. (P.) kesteveni Hedley 1900W93 [=Vacerra kesteveniC45]
| `--P. (P.) menda Iredale 1924W93 [=Vacerra mendaC45]
|--P. (Altrix Palmer 1942) [incl. Folia Palmer 1937 non Lohman 1892]KC60
| `--P. (*A.) altior (Meyer & Aldrich 1886) [=Fissurella altior]KC60
|--P. (Cranopsis Adams 1860) [incl. Rimulanax Iredale 1924]KC60
| |--P. (*C.) pelex (Adams 1860) [=*Cranopsis pelex]KC60
| `--P. (C.) corolla Verco 1908 [=*Rimulanax corolla]W93
`--P. (Fissurisepta Seguenza 1863)KC60
|--P. (*F.) papillosa (Seguenza 1863) [=*Fissurisepta papillosa]KC60
|--P. (F.) fumarium Hedley 1911W93
`--‘Fissurisepta’ granulosa Seguenza 1863C45
Puncturella incertae sedis:
P. analoga Martens 1903P61
P. caryophylla Dall 1914O27
P. conica (d’Orbigny 1841)RH96
P. cooperi Carpenter 1864O27
P. cucullata (Gould 1846)O27 [=Rimula cucullataO27; incl. Diadora crucibuliformis Conrad 1855C64]
P. demissa Hedley 1904P61 [=*Vacerra demissaW93, *Vacerrena demissaP61]
P. galeata (Gould 1846) [=Rimula galeata]O27
P. longifissa Dall 1914O27
P. major Dall 1891O27
P. manawatawhia Powell 1937P61
P. multistriata Dall 1914O27
P. pseudanaloga Powell 1957P61
Puncturella Lowe 1827P61 [incl. Cemoria Leach 1852 non Risso 1826KC60, Sipho Brown 1827 non Fabricius 1823KC60, Vacerra Iredale 1924 non Godman 1900W93, Vacerrena Iredale 1958P61]
*Puncturella (Puncturella) noachina (Linné 1758)KC60 [=Patella noachinaP61, Rimula noachinaO27; incl. Pa. fissurellaJ64, Cemoria flemingiiJ64, Fissurella graecaJ64, Sipho striataJ64]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[C64] Carpenter, P. P. 1864. Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the west coast of North America. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 33: 517–686.
[C45] Cotton, B. C. 1945. Australian keyhole limpets. South Australian Naturalist 23 (2): 13–17.
[J64] Jeffreys, J. G. 1864. The Upper Tertiary fossils at Uddevalla, in Sweden. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 33 (Notices and Abstracts): 73–79.
[KC60] Knight, J. B., L. R. Cox, A. M. Keen, R. L. Batten, E. L. Yochelson & R. Robertson. 1960. Gastropoda: systematic descriptions. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt I. Mollusca 1: Mollusca—General Features, Scaphopoda, Amphineura, Monoplacophora, Gastropoda—General Features, Archaeogastropoda and some (mainly Paleozoic) Caenogastropoda and Opisthobranchia pp. I169–I331. Geological Society of America, and University of Kansas Press.
[O27] Oldroyd, I. S. 1927. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America vol. 2 pt 3. Stanford University Press: Stanford University (California).
[P61] Powell, A. W. B. 1961. Shells of New Zealand: An illustrated handbook 4th ed. Whitcombe and Tombs Limited: Christchurch.
[RH96] Reindl, S., & G. Haszprunar. 1996. Shell pores (caeca, aesthetes) of Mollusca: a case of polyphyly. In: Taylor, J. D. (ed.) Origin and Evolutionary Radiation of the Mollusca pp. 115–118. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
[W93] Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells vol. 1. Prosobranch Gastropods. Part One. Odyssey Publishing: Kallaroo (Western Australia).