Turricaspia chersonica

Wesselingh, Frank, Poorten, Jan Johan ter, Kijashko, Pavel, Albrecht, Christian, Anistratenko, Olga Yu, Frolov, Pavel, Gándara, Alberto Martinez, Gittenberger, Arjan, Gogaladze, Aleksandre, Mikhail Karpinsky, Popa, Luis, Sands, Arthur F, Vandendorpe, Justine & Wilke, Thomas, 2019, Mollusc species from the Pontocaspian region - an expert opinion list, ZooKeys 827, pp. 31-124 : 82

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.31365

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Turricaspia chersonica
status

 

Turricaspia chersonica Alexenko & Starobogatov, 1987

*1987 Turricaspia (Oxypyrgula) chersonica Alexenko & Starobogatov: 35-36, fig. 10.

2016 Turricaspia chersonica Alexenko & Starobogatov, 1987. - Vinarski and Kantor: 246.

Status. Pontocaspian species, identity uncertain.

Type locality. Ukraine, in the Dnieper Delta.

Distribution. Type locality only.

Taxonomic notes. The status of this species is highly uncertain. The slender conical shell illustrated by Alexenko and Starobogatov (1987) suggest classification in the genus Turricaspia , which is otherwise only known from the Caspian Sea.

Conservation status. Data Deficient ( Son 2011d).