Klikia

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

Shell depressed-globose, narrowly umbilical, with convex, obtuse spire and round periphery.

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.

This group is named in honor of Gottlieb Klika, author of an excellent memoir upon tertiary

land and fresh-water shells of Bohemia.This article incorporates public domain text from reference.