Turricaspia similis

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 : 91

Turricaspia similis (Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1969)

*1969 Pyrgula (Caspiella) similis Logvinenko & Starobogatov: 375, fig. 366(11).

2016 Pyrgula similis Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1968. - Vinarski and Kantor: 243.

Status. Pontocaspian species, identity uncertain.

Type locality. Eastern part of the middle Caspian Sea, 20-50 m.

Distribution. Middle and southern Caspian Basin. This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 300 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017).

Taxonomic notes. Judging from the drawing in Logvinenko and Starobogatov (1969), presenting a small slender shell with ca. 5.5 highly convex whorls, the species might be based on a juvenile specimen. It might be a junior synonym of the similarly shaped T. meneghiniana (Issel, 1865). Without investigating the type material, which has not been found in the ZIN collection, the identity of this species remains unclear.

Conservation status. Not assessed.