''Sculptaria'' is a

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of small air-breathing

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s, and

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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 ...

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s in the superfamily

Plectopyloidea Plectopyloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the suborder Helicina.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopyloidea Möllendorff, 1898. Accessed through: World Register ...

. ''Sculptaria'' is the only

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

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is small, discoidal, carinated, widely umbilicated. The

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is becoming free at the aperture. The

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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'' van Bruggen & Rolán, 2003 - from

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* '' Sculptaria gertenbachae'' Blume, 1963 * '' Sculptaria hoeschae'' Zilch, 1951 * '' Sculptaria kaokoensis'' Zilch 1952 - from Namibia"Genus ''Sculptaria''"
accessed 10 September 2010. * '' 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'' (Gray, 1838) - type species ** ''Sculptaria sculpturata collaris'' Pfeiffer, 1867 / ''Sculptaria collaris'' - from southern

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. 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)". ''

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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 George Washington Tryon Jr. (20 May 1838 – 5 February 1888) was an American malacologist who worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Biography George Washington Tryon was the son of Edward K. Tryon and Adeline Savidt. ...

, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata''
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