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Drawing of the apertural view of a shellofSculptaria sculpturata | |
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clade Heterobranchia
informal group Sigmurethra
clade Euthyneura |
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Family: | Sculptariidae |
Genus: | Sculptaria L. Pfeiffer, 1855[2] |
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).
The distribution of Sculptaria includes south-western Africa.[4]
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]
Species within the genus Sculptaria include:
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