Sculptaria is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs 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).
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, 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 Namibiavan Bruggen & Rolán (2003) Basteria 67: 102.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 Sculptaria gertenbachae Blume, 1963 Sculptaria hoeschae Zilch, 1951 Sculptaria kaokoensis Zilch 1952 - from Namibia"Genus Sculptaria". accessed 10 September 2010. 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.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. - drawing of the anatomy Sculptaria sculpturata collaris Pfeiffer, 1867 Sculptaria sculpturata laevis Zilch 1939
References This article incorporates public domain text from the referencePilsbry 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.
Further reading
(1910) "Note on Sculptaria, Pfeiffer". Journal of Molluscan Studies 9 (1): 34–36. .