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Sculptaria
Sign in to saveSculptaria is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilySculptariidae
Observations1
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Sculptariidae
- Collections
- AM, NHMUK, UMMZ
- Recorded in
- Namibia, Angola
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Encyclopedic overview
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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).
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