Sculptaria
Introduction '''''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 (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 Namibia* ''Sculptaria gertenbachae'' Blume, 1963* ''Sculptaria hoeschae'' Zilch, 1951* ''Sculptaria kaokoensis'' Zilch 1952 - from Namibia* ''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. -  drawing of the anatomy** ''Sculptaria sculpturata collaris'' Pfeiffer, 1867** ''Sculptaria sculpturata laevis'' Zilch 1939
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Further reading * (1910) "Note on ''Sculptaria'', Pfeiffer". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 9 (1): 34-36.abstract.