Klikia is a genus of fossil air-breathing land snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, a terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Elonidae

Elonidae

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.This family is within the clade Eupulmonata ....

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This genus is named after 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

Henry Augustus Pilsbry

Henry Augustus Pilsbry was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century...

 in 1895.

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

External links

Fischer K. & Wenz W. A.

Wilhelm August Wenz

Wilhelm August Wenz was a German malacologist, born in Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of the 7-part Gastropoda section of Handbuch der Paläozoologie , a very important review that described all known fossil genera...

1914 Die Landschneckenkalke des Mainzer Beckens und ihre Fauna. page 70-71.