Klikia

Klikia
Drawing of shell of Klikia osculum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
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 Bohumil Klika (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 H. osculum Thomae  [ 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 phacodes Thomae, and with species of typical Helicodonta ; H. involuta 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 Gottlieb Klika, 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. 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.

External links

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