Sculptaria


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.

Distribution

The distribution of Sculptaria includes south-western Africa.

Description

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.

Genera

Species within the genus Sculptaria include:Sculptaria chapmanni Ancey, 1890Sculptaria damarensis H. Adams, 1870
  • * Sculptaria damarensis damarensis H. Adams
  • * Sculptaria damarensis minor Degner
  • * Sculptaria damarensis pygmaea Zilch 1952Sculptaria edlingeri Connolly, 1938
  • * Sculptaria edlingeri edlingeri Connolly, 1938
  • * Sculptaria edlingeri plurilamellata Blume, 1952Sculptaria framesi Burnup, 1923Sculptaria fumarium van Bruggen & Rolán, 2003 - from NamibiaSculptaria gertenbachae Blume, 1963Sculptaria hoeschae Zilch, 1951Sculptaria kaokoensis Zilch 1952 - from NamibiaSculptaria leschkei Degner, 1922Sculptaria namaquensis Zilch, 1939 - from NamibiaSculptaria ohopohoensis Zilch, 1939Sculptaria planula Zilch, 1951Sculptaria pretiosa Zilch, 1939Sculptaria retisculpta v. Martens, 1889Sculptaria sculpturata - 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. -
  • * Sculptaria sculpturata collaris Pfeiffer, 1867
  • * Sculptaria sculpturata laevis Zilch 1939