Klikia

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Klikia
Klikia osculum shell.jpg
Drawing of shell of
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Mollusca
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Gastropoda
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Klikia

Klikia is a genus of fossil air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Elonidae.

This genus is named after (1868-1942, also known as Gottlieb Klika), the author of the 1891 book Die tertiaeren Land- und Süsswasser-Conchylien des nord-westlichen Böhmen.

Original description[]

The genus Klikia was originally described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1895.[1]

Pilsbry's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

Section Klikia Pilsbry, 1894.

Shell depressed-globose, narrowly umbilical, with convex, obtuse spire and round periphery. Surface costulate-striate and minutely papillae in regular diamond pattern. Last whorl constricted behind the lip, which is well reflexed and thickened. Type  [de], pl. 71, fig. 49.

This apparently extinct type of Helicodonta is characteristic of middle European Miocene, where it coexisted -with species of Caracollina, such as Thomae, and with species of typical Helicodonta; Thomae being allied to the recent angigyra and biconcava. The strong differentiation of these sectional groups at as early a period as the lower Miocene (when they were, in fact, as strongly differentiated as in the recent fauna), argues a vastly greater antiquity for the genus as a whole. This group is named in honor of , author of an excellent memoir upon tertiary

land and fresh-water shells of Bohemia.

References[]

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Tryon G. W. 1894. Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. Helicidae - Volume VII. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry, page 289.

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