''Sculptaria'' is a
genus of small air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s, and
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the superfamily
Plectopyloidea.
''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.
Description
The
shell is small, discoidal, carinated, widely umbilicated.
The
last whorl is becoming free at the aperture.
The
aperture is very oblique, rounded, with continuous slightly expanded peristome, and having several teeth on the outer lip and an entering parietal lamina.
Genera
Species within the genus ''Sculptaria'' include:
* ''
Sculptaria chapmanni'' Ancey, 1890
* ''
Sculptaria damarensis'' H. Adams, 1870
** ''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
''Sculptaria'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.
''Sculptaria'' is the only genus in the family Sculptariidae. This family has no subfamilies (acc ...
'' van Bruggen & Rolán, 2003 - from
Namibia
* ''
Sculptaria gertenbachae
''Sculptaria'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.
''Sculptaria'' is the only genus in the family Sculptariidae. This family has no subfamilies (acc ...
'' Blume, 1963
* ''
Sculptaria hoeschae'' Zilch, 1951
* ''
Sculptaria kaokoensis'' Zilch 1952 - from Namibia
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* ''
Sculptaria leschkei'' Degner, 1922
* ''
Sculptaria namaquensis'' Zilch, 1939 - from Namibia
* ''
Sculptaria ohopohoensis'' Zilch, 1939
* ''
Sculptaria planula'' Zilch, 1951
* ''
Sculptaria pretiosa'' Zilch, 1939
* ''
Sculptaria retisculpta'' v. Martens, 1889
* ''
Sculptaria sculpturata
''Sculptaria'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.
''Sculptaria'' is the only genus in the family Sculptariidae. This family has no subfamilies (accordin ...
'' (Gray, 1838) - type species
** ''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.
[Tillier S. (1989). "Comparative morphology, phylogeny and classification of land snails and slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '' Malacologia'' 30(1-2): 1-303]
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drawing of the anatomy** ''Sculptaria sculpturata collaris'' Pfeiffer, 1867
** ''Sculptaria sculpturata laevis'' Zilch 1939
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference
[ Pilsbry H. A. (1894). '' Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata'']
Volume 9
Helicidae - Volume VII
page 39plate 10
figure 4.
Further reading
* (1910) "Note on ''Sculptaria'', Pfeiffer". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 9 (1): 34-36
abstract
External links
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Gastropod genera
Taxa named by Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer