Sculptaria

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Sculptaria is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.[3]

Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Order:Stylommatophora
Superfamily:Plectopyloidea
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Sculptaria
Drawing of the apertural view of a shell of Sculptaria sculpturata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Plectopyloidea
Family: Sculptariidae
Degner, 1923[1]
Genus: Sculptaria
L. Pfeiffer, 1855[2]
Diversity
About 15 species
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Sculptaria is the only genus in the family Sculptariidae. This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of Sculptaria includes south-western Africa.[4]

Description

The shell is small, discoidal, carinated, widely umbilicated.[4] The last whorl is becoming free at the aperture.[4] The aperture is very oblique, rounded, with continuous slightly expanded peristome, and having several teeth on the outer lip and an entering parietal lamina.[4]

Genera

Species within the genus Sculptaria include:

  • Sculptaria chapmanni Ancey, 1890[4]
  • Sculptaria damarensis H. Adams, 1870[4]
    • Sculptaria damarensis damarensis H. Adams
    • Sculptaria damarensis minor Degner
    • Sculptaria damarensis pygmaea Zilch 1952
  • Sculptaria edlingeri Connolly, 1938
    • Sculptaria edlingeri edlingeri Connolly, 1938
    • Sculptaria edlingeri plurilamellata Blume, 1952
  • Sculptaria framesi Burnup, 1923
  • Sculptaria fumarium van Bruggen & Rolán, 2003 - from Namibia[5][6]
  • Sculptaria gertenbachae Blume, 1963
  • Sculptaria hoeschae Zilch, 1951
  • Sculptaria kaokoensis Zilch 1952 - from Namibia[7]
  • Sculptaria leschkei Degner, 1922
  • Sculptaria namaquensis Zilch, 1939 - from Namibia[7]
  • Sculptaria ohopohoensis Zilch, 1939
  • Sculptaria planula Zilch, 1951
  • Sculptaria pretiosa Zilch, 1939
  • Sculptaria retisculpta v. Martens, 1889[4]
  • Sculptaria sculpturata (Gray, 1838) - type species[4]
    • Sculptaria sculpturata collaris Pfeiffer, 1867 / Sculptaria collaris - from southern Angola. The width of the shell is 6.4 mm. The height of the shell is 2 mm. The shell has 4.3 whorls.[8] - drawing of the anatomy
    • Sculptaria sculpturata collaris Pfeiffer, 1867
    • Sculptaria sculpturata laevis Zilch 1939

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