Turricaspia andrussowi

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 : 80-81

Turricaspia andrussowi (Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915)

*1915 Micromelania (Turricaspia) andrussowi Dybowski & Grochmalicki: 125-126, pl. 3, fig. 31a, b.

?1969 Pyrgula (Oxypyrgula) dubia Logvinenko and Starobogatov: 368, fig. 363(5).

? 1969 Pyrgula (Oxypyrgula) turkmenica Logvinenko and Starobogatov: 368, fig. 363(6).

2006 Turricaspia andrussowi (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Kantor and Sysoev: 104-105, pl. 48, fig. A [pars, excluding synonymy].

2016 Turricaspia andrussowi (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Vinarski and Kantor: 245 [pars, excluding synonymy].

2018 Turricaspia andrussowi (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Neubauer et al.: 74-76, fig. 11A, BB.

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Caspian Sea (no details).

Distribution. Endemic to the Caspian Sea. The two tentative synonyms were recorded from the western part of the middle Caspian Sea and the eastern part of the southern Caspian Sea, respectively. This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 500 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017, who reported the species as T. turkmenica , T. dubia , and T. andrussowi ).

Taxonomic notes. The species was recently investigated by Neubauer et al. (2018). Pyrgula dubia and P. turkmenica are tentatively considered juveniles and thus junior synonyms of this species.

Conservation status. Not assessed.