Klikia Explained

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.

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

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