''Sculptaria'' is a

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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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

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 inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

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 Registe ...

. ''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

last whorl The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk. In gastropods In gastropods, the b ...

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 ''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 ...

'' Ancey, 1890 * ''

Sculptaria damarensis ''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 ...

'' H. Adams, 1870 ** ''Sculptaria damarensis damarensis'' H. Adams ** ''Sculptaria damarensis minor'' Degner ** ''Sculptaria damarensis pygmaea'' Zilch 1952 * ''

Sculptaria edlingeri ''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 ...

'' Connolly, 1938 ** ''Sculptaria edlingeri edlingeri'' Connolly, 1938 ** ''Sculptaria edlingeri plurilamellata'' Blume, 1952 * ''

Sculptaria framesi ''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 ...

'' 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 (accordin ...

'' van Bruggen & Rolán, 2003 - from

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

* ''

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 (accordin ...

'' Blume, 1963 * ''

Sculptaria hoeschae ''Sculptaria'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea. ''Sculptaria'' is the only genus in the family Sculptariidae. This family has no s ...

'' 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 ''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

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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)". ''

Malacologia ''Malacologia'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks. The journal publishes articles in the fields of molluscan systematics, ecology, population ecology, genetics, molecular genetics, evolution, an ...

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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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