Sculptaria is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea

Plectopyloidea

Plectopyloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.-Families:...

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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

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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Description

The shell

Gastropod shell

The gastropod shell is a shell which is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, one kind of mollusc. The gastropod shell is an external skeleton or exoskeleton, which serves not only for muscle attachment, but also for protection from predators and from mechanical damage...

 is small, discoidal, carinated, widely umbilicated. The last whorl is becoming free at the aperture. The aperture

Aperture (mollusc)

The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc....

 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 Namibia
• Sculptaria gertenbachae Blume, 1963
• Sculptaria hoeschae Zilch, 1951
• Sculptaria kaokoensis Zilch 1952 - from Namibia
• 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 Angola. The width of the shell is 6.4 mm. The height of the shell is 2 mm. The shell has 4.3 whorls. - drawing of the anatomy
  • Sculptaria sculpturata collaris Pfeiffer, 1867
  • Sculptaria sculpturata laevis Zilch 1939

Further reading

• (1910) "Note on Sculptaria, Pfeiffer". Journal of Molluscan Studies 9 (1): 34-36. abstract.