Sculptaria

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Sculptaria
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Drawing of the apertural view of a shell of Sculptaria sculpturata
Scientific classification
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Sculptariidae

Degner, 1923 [1]
Genus:
Sculptaria

Diversity
about 15 species

Sculptaria is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea. [3]

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. [4]

Description

The shell is small, discoidal, carinated, widely umbilicated. [4] The last whorl is becoming free at the aperture. [4] The aperture is very oblique, rounded, with continuous slightly expanded peristome, and having several teeth on the outer lip and an entering parietal lamina. [4]

Genera

Species within the genus Sculptaria include:

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References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [4]

  1. (in German) Degner E. (1923). "Zur Anatomie und systematischen Stellung von Sculptaria Pfeiffer". Archiv für Molluskenkunde55(4): 14-160. Plate 6, page 157.
  2. (in German) Pfeiffer L. (1855). "Versuch einer Anordnung der Heliceen nach natürlichen Gruppen". Malakozoologische Blätter 2: 112-185. page 135.
  3. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pilsbry H. A. (1894). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. Helicidae - Volume VII. page 39, plate 10, figure 4.
  5. van Bruggen & Rolán (2003) Basteria67: 102.
  6. WoRMS (2010). Sculptaria fumarium Bruggen & Rolán, 2003. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=475270 on 2010-09-10
  7. 1 2 "Genus Sculptaria". accessed 10 September 2010.
  8. Tillier S. (1989). "Comparative morphology, phylogeny and classification of land snails and slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Malacologia 30(1-2): 1-303. page 287, 293.

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