Klikia

Klikia
Drawing of shell of
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Elonidae
Genus:	Klikia Pilsbry, 1895[1]

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]

External links[]

• (in German) Fischer K. & Wenz W. A. 1914 Die Landschneckenkalke des Mainzer Beckens und ihre Fauna. page 70-71.