| channel catfish | (n) freshwater food fish common throughout central United States, Syn. Ictalurus punctatus, channel cat |
| climbing bird's nest fern | (n) tropical Africa to Australasia and Polynesia, Syn. Microsorium punctatum |
| dotted gayfeather | (n) herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico, Syn. Liatris punctata |
| horsemint | (n) tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico, Syn. Monarda punctata |
| round scad | (n) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic, Syn. cigarfish, quiaquia, Decapterus punctatus |
| sea hare | (n) naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles, Syn. Aplysia punctata |
| spotted sunfish | (n) inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish, Syn. Lepomis punctatus, stumpknocker |
| tuatara | (n) only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand, Syn. Sphenodon punctatum |
| two-spotted ladybug | (n) red ladybug with a black spot on each wing, Syn. Adalia bipunctata |