Sculptaria


Sculptaria is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, 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: