Cimrmaniela gen. nov.

Type species. Cimrmaniela sveraki sp. nov.

Diagnosis: Palaeozygopleurid with small, very slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shell having straight sides, narrow apical angle; whorl profile very convex; whorls ornamented by regularly spaced, opisthocyrt or orthocline costae; large protruding protoconch.

Comparison: Species of Cimrmaniela differ from all other palaeozygopleurid species by their small and very slender, high-spired and multiwhorled shells. Only species of Bojozyga have such slender shells (i.e., having a very narrow pleural angle). Whorls in both known species of Bojozyga are only gently convex and they are distinctly appressed, forming a typical sutural band (see Horný 1955: pl. III, figs 5, 6), in contrast to the shells of Cimrmaniela . Except for the latter characteristics, the species of Cimrmaniela differ from those of Bojozyga in having much smaller shells. Species of Cimrmaniela differ from Pragozyga Frýda, 1999, by their very slender, high-spired shells (compare Fig. 2 with fig.1a in Frýda et al. 2008).

Etymology: Cimrmaniela, in honour of Jára Cimrman, who was one of the greatest Czech universal scientists and artists of the 19th and early 20th century.

Species included: Cimrmaniela sveraki sp. nov. and Cimrmaniela smoljaki sp. nov.