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Klikia
''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 A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper. Its purpose is to give a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species that have be ...) reads as follows: References This article incorporates public domain text from reference. External links * Fischer K. & Wenz W. A. 191''Die Landschneckenkalke des Mainzer Beckens und ihre Fauna'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klikia Osculum
''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 A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper. Its purpose is to give a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species that have be ...) reads as follows: References This article incorporates public domain text from reference. External links * Fischer K. & Wenz W. A. 191''Die Landschneckenkalke des Mainzer Beckens und ihre Fauna'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Subfamilies and genera The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): * Eloninae Gittenberger, 1977 * Klikiinae H. Nordsieck, 1986 Genera Genera in the family Elonidae include: * † '' Cyrtochilus'' F. Sandberger, 1875 * † '' Eurystrophe'' Gude, 1911 * †'' Joossia'' Pfeffer, 1930 * † '' Lychnopsis'' Vidal, 1917 * † '' Megalocochlea'' Wenz, 1919 * † '' Papillotopsis'' H. Binder, 2017 * † '' Puisseguria'' Schlickum, 1975 ;Eloninae * The type genus is '' Elona'' H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. It is a monotypic genus, with only one species: '' Elona quimperiana'' * † '' Galactochiloides'' Wenz, 1919 * '' Norelona'' Nordsieck, 1986 ** '' Norelona p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and several marine families. The taxon Pulmonata as traditionally defined was found to be polyphyletic in a molecular study per Jörger ''et al.'', dating from 2010. Pulmonata are known from the Carboniferous Period to the present. Pulmonates have a single atrium and kidney, and a concentrated, symmetrical, nervous system. The mantle cavity is located on the right side of the body, and lacks gills, instead being converted into a vascularised lung. Most species have a shell, but no operculum, although the group does also include several shell-less slugs. Pulmonates are hermaphroditic, and some groups possess love darts. Linnean taxonomy The taxonomy of this group according to the taxonomy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottlieb Klika
Gottlieb (formerly D. Gottlieb & Co.) was an American arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. History The main office and plant was located at 1140-50 N. Kostner Avenue until the early 1970s when a new modern plant and office was located at 165 W. Lake Street in Northlake, IL. A subassembly plant was located in Fargo, ND. The company was established by David Gottlieb in 1927, initially producing pinball machines while later expanding into various other games including pitch-and-bats, bowling games, and eventually video arcade games (notably '' Reactor'' and '' Q*bert ''and, leading to the demise of Mylstar, M*A*C*H*3.) Like other manufacturers, Gottlieb first made mechanical pinball machines, including the first successful coin-operated pinball machine '' Baffle Ball'' in 1931. Electromechanical machines were produced starting in 1935. The 1947 development of player-actuated, solenoid-driven 2-inch bats called "flippers" revolutionized the industry. Players now had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helicodonta Involuta
''Helicodonta'', common name the "cheese snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicodontinae of the family Helicodontidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicodonta A. Férussac, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=887088 on 2021-02-01 The common name is based on the shape of the shell, which is reminiscent of a wheel of cheese. Species Species within the genus ''Helicodonta'' include: * '' Helicodonta angigyra'' (Rossmässler, 1834) * '' Helicodonta langhofferi'' Wagner, 1912 * ''Helicodonta obvoluta'' (Müller, 1774) * '' Helicodonta wilhelminae'' Maassen, 1991 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Helicodonta gyria'' (J. R. Roth, 1839) : synonym of ''Lindholmiola gyria'' (J. R. Roth, 1839) (unaccepted combination) * ''Helicodonta hispanica'' Gude, 1910 : synonym of '' Suboestophora hispanica'' (Gude, 1910) (original co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helicodonta
''Helicodonta'', common name the "cheese snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicodontinae of the family Helicodontidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicodonta A. Férussac, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=887088 on 2021-02-01 The common name is based on the shape of the shell, which is reminiscent of a wheel of cheese. Species Species within the genus ''Helicodonta'' include: * ''Helicodonta angigyra'' (Rossmässler, 1834) * ''Helicodonta langhofferi'' Wagner, 1912 * '' Helicodonta obvoluta'' (Müller, 1774) * ''Helicodonta wilhelminae'' Maassen, 1991 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Helicodonta gyria'' (J. R. Roth, 1839) : synonym of ''Lindholmiola gyria'' (J. R. Roth, 1839) (unaccepted combination) * ''Helicodonta hispanica'' Gude, 1910 : synonym of ''Suboestophora hispanica'' (Gude, 1910) (original com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caracollina Phacodes
''Caracollina'' is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Trissexodontidae Trissexodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies. The famil .... The species of this genus are found in Mediterranean regions. Species: *'' Caracollina barreri'' *'' Caracollina huloti'' *'' Caracollina lenticula'' References Trissexodontidae {{Trissexodontidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miocene
The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regionally defined boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, the Arabian Peninsula collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of proboscideans into Eurasia. During the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body Whorl
The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk. In gastropods In gastropods, the body whorl, or last whorl, is the most recently formed and largest whorl (or revolution) of a spiral or helical shell, terminating in the aperture. It is called the "body whorl" because most of the body of the soft parts of the animal fits into this whorl. The proportional size of the body whorl in gastropod shells differs greatly according to the actual shell morphology. For shells in which the rate of whorl expansion of each revolution around the axis is very high, the aperture and the body whorl are large, and the shell tends to be low spired. The shell of the abalone is a good example of this kind of shell. The opposite tendency can sometimes create a high spire with very little whorl increase per revolution. In these instances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spire (mollusc)
A spire is a part of the coiled shell of molluscs. The spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl. Each spire whorl represents a rotation of 360°. A spire is part of the shell of a snail, a gastropod mollusc, a gastropod shell, and also the whorls of the shell in ammonites, which are fossil shelled cephalopods. In textbook illustrations of gastropod shells, the tradition (with a few exceptions) is to show most shells with the spire uppermost on the page. The spire, when it is not damaged or eroded, includes the protoconch (also called the nuclear whorls or the larval shell), and most of the subsequent teleoconch whorls (also called the postnuclear whorls), which gradually increase in area as they are formed. Thus the spire in most gastropods is pointed, the tip being known as the " apex". The word "spire" is used, in an analogy to a church spire or rock spire, a high, thin, pinnacle. The "spire angle" is the angle, as seen from the apex, at wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastropod Shell
The gastropod shell is part of the body of a Gastropoda, gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium storage. Some gastropods appear shell-less (slugs) but may have a remnant within the mantle, or in some cases the shell is reduced such that the body cannot be retracted within it (semi-slug). Some snails also possess an operculum that seals the opening of the shell, known as the Aperture (mollusc), aperture, which provides further protection. The study of mollusc shells is known as conchology. The biological study of gastropods, and other molluscs in general, is malacology. Shell morphology terms vary by species group. Shell layers The gastropod shell has three major layers secreted by the Mantle (mollusc), mantle. The calcareous central layer, tracum, is typically made of calcium carbonate precipitated into an organic matrix known as c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
