Sculptariidae
| Sculptaria | |
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| Drawing of the apertural view of a shell of Sculptaria sculpturata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Plectopyloidea |
| Family: |
Sculptariidae Degner, 1923 |
| Genus: |
Sculptaria L. Pfeiffer, 1855 |
| Diversity | |
| about 15 species | |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Sculptaria is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod 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).
The distribution of Sculptaria includes south-western Africa.
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.
Species within the genus Sculptaria include:
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